Object Details
- Provenance
- Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London [1]
- To 1898
- H. Wunderlich & Co., New York to 1898 [2]
- From 1898 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from H. Wunderlich & Co., through Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938), in November 1898 [3]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Whistler List, Haden Collection Drawings, pg. 1, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
- [2] See Voucher No. 20, November 1898, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
- [3] See note 2.
- [4] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Picturing Whistler: Portraits and Self-Portraits (May 21 to December 3, 2000)
- James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art—Whistler and Modern Life (May 11, 1984 to December 16, 1984)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910)
- H. Wunderlich & Co. (1874-1912) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
- Date
- 1858
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Pencil on cream paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 22.9 x 24.2 cm (9 x 9 1/2 in)
- Type
- Drawing
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