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Object Number

1943.610

People

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)

Title

Design for Matting; verso: Design for Panelling

Other Titles

Former Title: Design with Flowers
Former Title: Ornamental Design

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1873 -1875

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/308003

Medium

Black, white, and blue pastel on brown wove paper

Dimensions

28.2 x 18.4 cm (11 1/8 x 7 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.l.: butterfly monogram
• label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper, printed: Scott & Fowles / Dealers in High Class Paintings / 667 Fifth Avenue / New York.
• inscription: upper right, graphite: 1442
• inscription: lower left, graphite: [difficult to decipher--see file for transcription]

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.610

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), p. 244

David Park Curry, "Whistler and Decoration", The Magazine Antiques (November 1984), pp. 1186-1199, fig. 9 (recto only)

David Park Curry, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, exh. cat., Freer Gallery of Art / W.W. Norton & Co. (New York and Washington, DC, 1984), p. 185, fig. 106.1 (recto only)

Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: A Reexamination, ed. Ruth E. Fine, National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C., 1987), reproduced, fig. 10, p. 73

Deanna Marohn Bendix, Diabolical Designs: Paintings, Interiors, and Exhibitions of James McNeill Whistler, exh. cat., Smithsonian Institution Press (Washington, DC, 1995), pg. 111

Richard Dorment and Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler, exh. cat., Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1995), reproduced under no. 73, p. 158

Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1995), pp. 182 - 183, no 493 (recto and verso), reproduced

Jane Turner, The Encyclopedia of American Art before 1914, Macmillan Publishers Limited (London, England, 2000), p. 627

Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), pp. 470-71, cat. 214, ill.

Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), p. 486, cat. 214, ill.

David Park Curry, James McNeill Whistler: Uneasy Pieces, exh. cat., Virginia Museum of Fine Arts / Quantuck Lane Press (Richmond, VA, 2004), pp. 136, 137, fig. 4.29

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. 411-412, cat. no. 440 A & B, reproduced in b&w, p.412

A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004

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