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Property from the Estate of Rose Movius Palmer
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
Mother and Child
Details
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
Mother and Child
inscribed with artist's butterfly device (upper left)
pastel on paper laid down on board
11 x 7¼ in. (27.9 x 18.4 cm.)
Executed circa 1890-92.
Mother and Child
inscribed with artist's butterfly device (upper left)
pastel on paper laid down on board
11 x 7¼ in. (27.9 x 18.4 cm.)
Executed circa 1890-92.
Provenance
Petit's Gallery, Paris.
Mrs. Potter Palmer, acquired from the above, 1892.
By descent to Rose Movius Palmer.
Mrs. Potter Palmer, acquired from the above, 1892.
By descent to Rose Movius Palmer.
Literature
Ringling Museum of Art, A Selection of Paintings & Drawings, Lent by Family, by the Estate of Pauline K. Palmer & by the Art Institute of Chicago, Potter Palmer Collection, exhibition catalogue, Sarasota, Florida, no. 37, pl. VII.
M.F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler, Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven, Connecticut, 1995, p. 465, no. 1285.
M.F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler, Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven, Connecticut, 1995, p. 465, no. 1285.
Exhibited
Paris, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux Arts, Quai Malaquais, Oeuvres de James McNeill Whistler, May 1905, no. 147.
Sarasota, Florida, Ringling Museum of Art, A Selection of Paintings & Drawings, Lent by Family, by the Estate of Pauline K. Palmer & by the Art Institute of Chicago, Potter Palmer Collection, no. 37.
Sarasota, Florida, Ringling Museum of Art, A Selection of Paintings & Drawings, Lent by Family, by the Estate of Pauline K. Palmer & by the Art Institute of Chicago, Potter Palmer Collection, no. 37.