At the Piano

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

1873/75

James McNeill Whistler
American, 1834-1903

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Title: At the Piano
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.: 1870–1879
Medium: Charcoal on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, lower center, in graphite: "This drawing by J. McN. Whistler / was done in chalk as a study / for the drypoint 'The Piano' / Ernest G. Brown; inscribed verso, lower right, in graphite: "20359"; inscribed verso, lower left, in graphite: "R1254(illegible)"; inscribed verso, lower right, in graphite: "10"
Dimensions: 17.5 × 11.2 cm (6 15/16 × 4 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: The Charles Deering Collection
Reference Number: 1927.5886
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Ruth E. Fine, Drawing Near: Whistler Etchings from the Zelman Collection, exh. cat. (Los Angeles, 1984), pp. 90-91, fig. 36a.
Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, 1995), p. 202, no. 538 (ill.).
Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2012 (http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk; accessed September 10, 2019), under “Subject,” no. 144.

Art Institute of Chicago, “James McNeill Whistler: Paintings, Pastels, Watercolors, Etching, Lithographs,” Jan. 13-Feb. 25, 1968, cat. 81; also Utica, NY., Munson-Williams, Prochter Institute, Mar. 17-Apr. 28, 1968.
Ann Arbor, Mich., The University of Michigan Museum of Art, “Whistler: The later Years,” Aug. 27-Oct. 8, 1978, cat. 51.
New York, M. Knoedler and Co., “Notes, Harmonies and Nocturnes: Small Works by James McNeill Whistler,” Nov. 29-Dec. 27, 1984.

Possibly sold by Mme. Strindberg to W. Marchant, after 1910 [MacDonald 1995]. Charles Deering (1852–1927), Chicago; by descent to his daughters, Mrs. Chauncey McCormick (née Marion Deering; 1886–1965), Chicago and Mrs. Richard Ely Danielson (née Barbara Deering; 1885–1957), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1927.

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