Annie, Seated

1858/1859

James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint in black on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Julius Garfinckel)

  • Dimensions

    plate: 13.18 × 9.68 cm (5 3/16 × 3 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 20.32 × 14.29 cm (8 × 5 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.413

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    MacDonald 2012, no. 32, state iii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Frederick Keppel & Co., New York); Julius Garfinckel, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1938; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1978

  • Artists and Their Circles, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1978

1990

  • Haden, Whistler, Pennell: Three Master Printmakers in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1990, no. 17, repro

Bibliography

1910

  • Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 30.

2012

  • MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 32, iii/iii. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Whistler; lower center in plate: Annie; lower center edge in graphite by unknown hand: 8626; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: A93056; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: HY

Wikidata ID

Q77008730

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