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TITLE: [Self-portrait of Whistler]
CALL NUMBER: DRWG/MA, no. 255 (A size) [P&P]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-4661 (color film copy transparency)
LC-USZ62-14689 (b&w film copy neg.)
RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication.
SUMMARY: Study for self-portrait, half-length, facing slightly right, with coat drapped over shoulder.
MEDIUM: 1 drawing : pen and brown ink ; sheet 11.2 x 8.8 cm.
CREATED/PUBLISHED: [between 1898 and 1900]
CREATOR:
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903, artist.
NOTES:
Signed in ink with butterfly.
Title from catalogue raisonné.
On back with fragment of a signed letter: [Whis]tler's acknowledgements; [Dai]ly Mail [p]aralized with gratitude [a]t the delicacy and kind ... you chew the food ... readers-of course you; Pray receive my compliments, J. McNeill Whistler.
In the 1905 Memorial Exhibition catalogue, Pennell stated this was a study for the full length self-portrait exhibited at the Exposition Universelle in Paris, 1900; in 1908 Pennell stated this was a study for "Brown and Gold," (National Gallery of Art, Washington), ca. 1896-1898.
Cream laid paper; no watermark.
James McNeill Whistler : drawings, pastels, and watercolors : a catalogue raisonné / Margaret F. MacDonald. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 1995, no. 1533 (p. 553)
Gift; E. R. & J. Pennell; 1917.
Forms part of the Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection of Whistleriana.
Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997.
Exhibited: Library of Congress, "Pennell Legacy," 1983.
Exhibited: Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, #3130, 1984.
SUBJECTS:
Whistler, James McNeill,--1834-1903.
FORMAT:
Studies (Visual works) 1890-1900.
Self-portraits 1890-1900.
Ink drawings 1890-1900.
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGITAL ID: (digital file from color film copy transparency) cph 3g04661 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g04661
(digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a16950 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a16950
CONTROL #: 96511326
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