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James McNeill Whistler

Sketch of Mrs. Godwin's Portrait when hung at the Society of British Artists, 1886/1887

Not on View

Medium

graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 20.2 × 12.5 cm (7 15/16 × 4 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 1995, no. 1127

Accession Number

1943.3.8815

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left verso in graphite: C(?). 980/2 (circled)

Marks and Labels

lower left verso in black ink: LRJ; lower left verso in blue ink: NGA/LRJ stamp

Provenance

Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1931: Etchings, Lithographs, Original Drawings, and Autograph Letters by James A. McNeill Whistler, The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1931.

Bibliography

1995: MacDonald, Margaret F. James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1995, no. 1127.

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