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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.930
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
Self-Portrait
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1893-1899
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230116

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
27.1 x 21.5 cm (10 11/16 x 8 7/16 in.)
framed: 40 x 34.3 x 2.5 cm (15 3/4 x 13 1/2 x 1 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: verso, middle stretcher, black border, handwritten text: D / 393
  • label: verso, lower center of stretcher, printed text, serrated edges: 20
  • inscription: verso, lower part of frame, graphite: xx

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Given by the artist to his frame maker by 1899; his sale to an official at the Musée du Louvre; his sale to Jean Guiffrey, Paris; his sale to the dealer Percy Moore Turner, London; his sale to Mr. E. A. Lewis, London, by August 1929; his sale to dealer Josef Stransky; his sale to Grenville L. Winthrop, 1929; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.930
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • James Bolivar Manson, "An Unknown Painting by Whistler", Apollo (August 1929), vol. X, no. 56, p. 104, p. 104, reproduced in color
  • Andrew McLaren Young and Margaret F. MacDonald, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, Yale University Press (New Haven, 1980), vol. I, p. 185, no. 416; reproduced in b/w vol. II p. 256
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 431-32, cat. no. 459, reproduced in b&w

Exhibition History

  • Master Paintings from the Fogg Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/13/1977 - 08/31/1977

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