1943.628: Study of Rosettes for Lady's Dress
DrawingsThe focus of this drawing is two flower pistils, the round central parts to which petals are attached. They are shown as if viewed from the top and aligned vertically on the page. Each pistil has a small, round central area surrounded by a ring of yellow ridges, then another ring of green ridges. A tan vertical stem-like line runs between the two pistils. Green horizontal lines extend from the center of each circle. Sketchy, un-detailed black and white lines suggest petal shapes around each flower center. There is a slanted paragraph of text in the bottom left corner.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.628
- People
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
- Title
- Study of Rosettes for Lady's Dress
- Other Titles
- Former Title: Sunflowers
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1871-1874
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/308032
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Pastel on brown wove paper
- Dimensions
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28.8 × 18.3 cm (11 5/16 × 7 3/16 in.)
mat: 50.5 × 38.7 cm (19 7/8 × 15 1/4 in.)
frame: 52.2 × 40.6 × 1.7 cm (20 9/16 × 16 × 11/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: l.r., black ink: Tres peu du [underlined:] vert-- deux ranges / [underlined:] seulement-- le reste [underlined:] jaune-- avec un / petit [underlined:] bouton brun au mileu-- / Que le vert dépasse bien le / jaune
- label: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed: Scott & Fowles / Dealers in High Class Paintings / 667 Fifth Avenue, / New York
- stamp: on mat below drawing, purple ink: P.D.C. [Lugt 2075]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London, 1921; Scott and Fowles, New York, NY; Hunt Henderson, New Orleans; his bequest to Tulane University, 1939; sold to Grenville L. Winthrop, 1941; 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
- 1943.628
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Elizabeth Robins Pennell and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, J. B. Lippincott and Co. (Philadelphia, PA, 1921), p. 301
- Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), p. 244
- Robin Spencer, ed., Whistler: A Retrospective, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc. (New York, NY, 1989), reproduced p. 109
- Richard Dorment and Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler, exh. cat., Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1995), under numbers 70 and 72, pp. 156 - 158
- Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1995), p. 157, no. 434, reproduced
- 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. 403-404, cat. no. 433, reproduced in color, p. 404
Exhibition History
- 32Q: 2100 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/13/2023 - 03/25/2024
Verification Level
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