A Portrait: Mildred Howells

1894/1896

James McNeill Whistler

Associated Names
James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

The image is a sketch of a woman seated in a chair. She is shown in a side view with her body slightly turned to the left. The woman is wearing a hat with decorative elements, and her hair is pulled back. She is dressed in a long dress with puffed sleeves and a light-colored or elaborate area over the chest. Her hands are resting in her lap, and she appears composed. The background is simple and undetailed.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 22.6 × 15.6 cm (8 7/8 × 6 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 32.3 × 20.7 cm (12 11/16 × 8 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.8735

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Stratis & Tedeschi 1998, no. 112, i/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1931

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

Bibliography

1896

  • Way, Thomas Robert. Mr. Whistler's Lithographs: The Catalogue. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1896; New York: H. Wunderlich & Co., 1905, no. 75.

1998

  • Stratis, Harriet K., and Martha Tedeschi, eds. The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, vol. 1. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998, pp. 346-350, no. 112, i/iii.

Wikidata ID

Q65022155

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