Jo's Bent Head

1861

James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

James McNeill Whistler

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 22.86 x 15.24 cm (9 x 6 in.)
    sheet: 29.21 x 19.37 cm (11 1/2 x 7 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.8451

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Kennedy 1910, no. 78

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1931

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

1953

  • Whistler's Prints after Fifty Years, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1953.

1959

  • Courbet's Contemporaries in Prints and Drawings, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1959-1960.

2022

  • The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler, Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2022, no. 9.

  • The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler, Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2022, no. 9.

Bibliography

1910

  • Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 78, ii/ii.

2012

  • MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 88, iii/iii. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65021868

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