Arrangement in Black - No.3, 1881

Not on View

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink on off-white laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 17.8 × 11.4 cm (7 × 4 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 1995, no. 851

Accession Number

1943.3.8817

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

center left in brown ink: butterfly signature; across bottom in pen and brown ink: Arrangement in Black- No. 3; lower right in graphite: butterfly signature added later (c.1890); lower right in graphite by unknown hand: 3588.; lower left verso in graphite by unkown hand: a61268

Marks and Labels

center left verso in black ink: Lessing J. Rosenwald stamp; center verso in blue ink: NGA/LJR stamp

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.

1994: James McNeill Whistler, Tate Gallery, London; Musée d'Orsay, Paris; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994-1995, no. 125, as Arrangement in Black - No.3.

Bibliography

1994: James McNeill Whistler. Exh. cat. Tate Gallery, London; Musée d'Orsay, Paris; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994-1995: no. 125.

1995: MacDonald, Margaret F. James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1995, no. 851.