Sketch of Maud, c. 1871/1873

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 17.8 × 11.1 cm (7 × 4 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 1995, no. 497

Accession Number

1943.3.8822

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

center right butterfly signature; lower left in darker ink: To /S.P. Avery- / Sunday June 22.1873. / Wind S. by J.W.; lower center in pen: 3/4 107(?)12

Marks and Labels

Collector's stamps, lower left verso: NGA; Lessing J. Rosenwald

Provenance

Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1931: Etchings, Lithographs, Original Drawings, and Autograph Letters by James A. McNeill Whistler, The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1931.

Bibliography

1921: Pennell, E.R., WHISTLER JOURNAL, Philadelphia: 1921, reproduced opposite p.162.

1995: MacDonald, Margaret F. James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1995, no. 497.