Harper Pennington

1880/1882

James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

James McNeill Whistler

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chalk and pastel on brown wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 21.4 × 13.7 cm (8 7/16 × 5 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.8812

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    MacDonald 1995, no. 835

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1995

  • James McNeill Whistler, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995, no. 123.

Bibliography

1994

  • James McNeill Whistler. Exh. cat. Tate Gallery, London; Musée d'Orsay, Paris; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994-1995: no. 123.

1995

  • MacDonald, Margaret F. James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1995, no. 835.

Inscriptions

lower right butterfly signature

Markings

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

Wikidata ID

Q64580655

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