The Doctor

1894

James McNeill Whistler

Associated Names
James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

The portrait sketch shows a man seated, featuring his full body from head to toe. The man has a serious expression and detailed facial features, including a mustache and dark, wavy hair. He is wearing a suit and a visible collar. The man has no visible jewelry or objects in hand. The background is plain, showing the textured surface of the paper, slightly aged in color.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 17.8 × 13 cm (7 × 5 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 21.8 × 19.5 cm (8 9/16 × 7 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.8737

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Stratis & Tedeschi 1998, no. 110

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. 78.

1998

  • Stratis, Harriet K., and Martha Tedeschi, eds. The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, vol. 1. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998, pp. 341-344, no. 110.

Wikidata ID

Q65022156

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