Portrait of Whistler

Prints and Drawings

1877

Carlo Pellegrini
Italian, worked in England, 1839-1889

Caricaturist Carlo Pellegrini, an admirer of Whistler, participated in London’s club life. He was member of the Beefsteak Club as well as the Arts Club, where one evening he drew this impromptu portrait of Whistler on a scrap of paper and gave it to Justin McCarthy, an Irish literary figure and politician. About two years later, Whistler presented Pellegrini with a freely drawn sketch after his oil painting Arrangement in Brown and Black: Portrait of Miss Rosa Corder (1876–78; Frick Collection, New York), referring to the Italian-born artist in his dedication as “mon Eleve,” or “my pupil.”

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Artist: Carlo Pellegrini
Title: Portrait of Whistler
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1877
Medium: Brush and dark brown ink on off-white wove paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, at top, in ink: "Portrait of James Whistler. Done & given to me by / Pellegrini at the Arts Club. Tuesday night. 11. Dec. / J.H. McC. 1877."
Dimensions: Sheet: 10.5 × 11 cm (4 3/16 × 4 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Walter S. Brewster
Reference Number: 1933.230
IIIF Manifest The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) represents a set of open standards that enables rich access to digital media from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions around the world. Learn more.: https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/14376/manifest.json

Meg Hausberg and Victoria Sancho Lobis. Whistler and Roussel: Linked Visions. Department of Publishing of The Art Institute of Chicago, 2015 (https://publications.artic.edu/whistler/reader/linkedvisions ; Accessed August 24, 2015), Checklist para. 9, cat. 8.1 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Whistler and Roussel: Linked Visions,” June 20-September 27, 2015, Checklist para. 9, cat. 8.1 (ill.).

J. H. McCarthy. Walter Stanton Brewster (1872-1954, Lugt Suppl., 2651 a-b), Chicago, by November 25, 1922 [Brewster collection records]; given to the Art Institute, 1933.

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