James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

West Point Cadets

細節

James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
West Point Cadets
pencil and ink on paper
7 x 4½ in. (17.8 x 11.4 cm.)

來源

Sotheby's, New York, 25 September 1992, lot 74.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

出版

M. Levy, Whistler Lithographs: A Catalogue Raisonné, London, 1975, no. 2a, illustrated.
M.F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolours, A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven, Connecticut, 1995, p. 33, no. 106, illustrated.
J. Wheeler, 'West Point Fifty Years Ago,' Golden Age, February 1906, pp. 66-70, illustrated.

拍品專文

According to Margaret F. MacDonald, the present work was most likely drawn at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point circa 1852 to 1854 and given to a fellow cadet, (later General) Alexander Webb. The subject possibly depicts a graduate being congratulated by two fellow cadets.