Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005716Study for Portrait of Thomas Way
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower right, in graphite: "29"; inscribed recto, lower right, in graphite: "AD1014"; inscribed verso, lower center, in graphite: "3"; inscribed verso, lower right, in graphite: "Drawings / C"; inscribed verso, lower right, in graphite: "A. 1847."
Provenance
Possibly sold, Sotheby's, London, May 27, 1919, lot 169, to Colnaghi [MacDonald 1995]; sold to Scott and Fowles, New York, June 1921 [MacDonald 1995]. Charles Sessler, Philadelphia. Ronald Rey, Baltimore, from c. 1965. Mansfield-Whittemore-Crown collection, from 1990; given to the Art Institute, 2004.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Songs on Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography," June 6-August 30, 1998, pp. 108 and 109, cat. 172, fig. 153; traveled to the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, October 2, 1998-January 3, 1999.
Publications
Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, 1995), pp. 520-521, no. 1453 (ill.). The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler: A Catalogue Raisonné, ed. Harriet K. Stratis and Martha Tedeschi (New York, 1998), I:435-36, 439 (ill., fig. 152a); II:200–201 (ill., fig. 5).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler / American, 1834-1903
- Date
- 1896
- Medium
- Graphite on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 20.1 × 12.8 cm (7 15/16 × 5 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- graphite
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of the Crown Family in honor of James N. Wood
- Accession no.
- 2004.675
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