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James McNeill Whistler

Harper Pennington, 1880/1882

Not on View

Medium

chalk and pastel on brown wove paper

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1943.3.8812

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

Open Access image.
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Inscription

lower right butterfly signature

Marks and Labels

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

Provenance

LJR (Lugt Supp.1760b)

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

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.

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