JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER (1834–1903)

Study for the Head of Cicely H. Alexander

Details
JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER (1834–1903)
Study for the Head of Cicely H. Alexander
oil on canvas
19 x 15 ¹/₄ in. (48.3 x 38.7 cm.)
Painted in 1872-73.
Provenance
The artist.
C.A. Howell, London, England, 1878.
T.G. Arthur, Ayr., Scotland.
Boussod, Valadon & Co., London, England, 1897.
William Burrell, Glasgow, 1902.
Alexander Barr, 1905. Alexander Reid, 1905.
Wunderlich, 1907.
Private Collection.
A.A. Healy, Brooklyn, New York, 1917.
Duran-Rull.
F.G. Macomber, Boston, Massachusetts.
Mrs. J. Hampden Robb, Beverly Farms, Massachusetts.
Richard L. Jackson, Washington, D.C.
Peterson Galleries, Beverly Hills, California, 1978.
Dr. John Larkin, White Bear Lake, Minnesota, 1979.
Berry-Hill Gallery, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1981.
Literature
E.L. Cary, The Works of James McNeill Whistler, New York, 1913, p. 219, no. 424.
A.M. Young, M. MacDonald, R. Spencer, H. Mills, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven, Conneticut, 1980, no. 128, pl. 112, illustrated.

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