Whistler

Not on View

Medium

watercolor and graphite on blue paper

Dimensions

Overall: 30.5 x 18.2 cm (12 x 7 3/16 in.)
support: 52.6 x 38.7 cm (20 11/16 x 15 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1949.5.521

Artists / Makers

Sir Leslie Ward (artist) British, 1851 - 1922

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: L Spy (pseudonym)

Provenance

Harris Whittemore [1864-1927], Naugatuck, CT; (his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 18 Jan 1949, lot 345); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia, PA); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkinton, PA; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1995: In Pursuit of the Butterfly: Portraits of James A. McNeil Whistler. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1995, 72, fig. 3:11.

Bibliography

1995: Denker, Eric. In Pursuit of the Butterfly: Portraits of James A. McNeil Whistler. Exh. cat. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1995: 72, fig. 3:11.