
Letter with Drawing of Whistler Menacing Du Maurier
George Du Maurier · 1894
Provenance
Ownership history
- Walter Stanton Brewster (1872-1954, Lugt Suppl., 2651 a-b), Chicago; given to the Art Institute, February 1933.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Washington, DC; National Portrait Gallery, "In Pursuit of the Butterfly: Portraits of James McNeill Whistler", from 4/7 - 8/13/1995.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Whistler and Roussel: Linked Visions," June 20-September 27, 2015, Checklist para. 13, cat. 12.4 (ill.).
Literature
Published references
- Eric Denker, In Pursuit of the Butterfly, Portraits of James McNeill Whistler (Washington, DC, 1995), fig. 3:42
- Meg Hausberg and Victoria Sancho Lobis. Whistler and Roussel: Linked Visions. Department of Publishing of The Art Institute of Chicago, 2015 (https://publications.artic.edu/whistler/reader/linkedvisions ; Accessed August 24, 2015), Checklist para. 13, cat. 12.4 (ill.).
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