Sketch after "Arrangement in Black: Lady Meux"

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Prints and Drawings

c. 1881

James McNeill Whistler
American, 1834-1903

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Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Title: Sketch after "Arrangement in Black: Lady Meux"
Place: United States (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.: 1876–1886
Medium: Pen and brown ink on cream wove paper laid down on ivory board
Inscriptions: Signed recto, left, in brown ink, and recto, center left, in brown ink: [artist's butterfly monogram]
Dimensions: 13.2 × 9.5 cm (5 1/4 × 3 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Walter S. Brewster
Reference Number: 1933.296
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Denys Sutton, “Whistler and Lady Meux,” Journal of the Honolulu Academy of Art I (1974), p. 39 (ill.).
Andrew Mclaren Young, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler (New Haven, 1980), p. 129, under no. 228.
Richard Dorment and Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler (London, 1994), pp. 204, 301n4, under no. 125.
Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, 1995), p. 320, no. 850 (ill.).
Margaret F. MacDonald, “What is a Whistler?” James McNeill Whistler in Context: Essys from the Whistler Centenary Symposium, University of Glasgow, 2003, ed. Lee Glazer (Washington D.C., 2008), p. 12.

The Art Institute of Chicago, “James McNeill Whistler,” January 13-February 25, 1968, cat. 85, cat. by Frederick Sweet; traveled to Utica, NY, Munson-Williams-Procter Institute, March 17-April 28, 1968.
Berlin, Nationalgalerie Staatliche Museen, “James McNeill Whistler, (1834-1903),” October 1-November 24, 1969, p. 89, cat. 87.
New York, Knoedler and Company, “Notes, Harmonies, Nocturnes,” November 30-December 27, 1984, cat. 27, cat. by Margaret F. MacDonald.
New York, The Frick Collection, “Whistler: Women and Fashion,” April 22-July 13, 2003, p. 165, cat. 155 (ill.).

E. G. Kennedy, New York, by 1891 [MacDonald 1995]. Sold by Albert Roullier Gallery, Chicago, to Walter S. Brewster (1872-1954), Chicago, March 2, 1929 [invoice]; given to the Art Institute, February 1933.

Cat. 23 Sketch after “Arrangement in Black: Lady Meux,” c. 1881

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