Sketch of Maud

c. 1871/1873

James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

James McNeill Whistler

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 17.8 × 11.1 cm (7 × 4 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.8822

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    MacDonald 1995, no. 497


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

1921

  • Pennell, E.R., WHISTLER JOURNAL, Philadelphia: 1921, reproduced opposite p.162.

1995

  • MacDonald, Margaret F. James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1995, no. 497.

Inscriptions

center right butterfly signature; lower left in darker ink: To /S.P. Avery- / Sunday June 22.1873. / Wind S. by J.W.; lower center in pen: 3/4 107(?)12

Markings

Collector's stamps, lower left verso: NGA; Lessing J. Rosenwald

Watermarks

NSON / S72 (partial)

Wikidata ID

Q64580664


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