
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Portrait of Miss Maud Franklin
James McNeill Whistler · 1883/1888
Provenance
Ownership history
- Charles J. Hanson (the artist's son) [Witt Library archives]. Sold by E. Parsons, London, 1924 [Witt Library archives]. Sold by Albert Roullier Gallery, Chicago, to Walter S. Brewster (1872-1954), Chicago, December 20, 1928 [AIC archives, Collection records list]; given to the Art Institute, February 1933.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Knoedler and Company, "Notes, Harmonies, Nocturnes," November 30-December 27, 1984, cat. 15 (ill.), as "Maud Franklin".
- New York, The Frick Collection, "Whistler: Women and Fashion," April 22-July 13, 2003, p. 144, cat. 134 (ill.).
Literature
Published references
- Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, 1995), pp. 338-339, no. 896 (ill.).
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