Self-Portrait, 1859

Not on View

Medium

drypoint on laid paper

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Kennedy 1910, no. 54, i/ii

Accession Number

1949.5.530

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

on plate: Whistler. 1859; lower right on recto: a 9048

Provenance

Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge [1845?-1924], Glasgow, (Lugt 394). H. Wunderlich & Co., New York (stock no. a 9048). Listed by E. G. Kennedy as owned by W. V. Kellen, 1910; purchased January 20, 1948 by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1995: Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 54, i/ii.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret F., Grischka Petri, Joanna Meacock.James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné. University of Glasgow on-line website at http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 44, state ii/iii.