Portrait of Miss Maud Franklin

Prints and Drawings

1883/1888

James McNeill Whistler
American, 1834-1903

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Title: Portrait of Miss Maud Franklin
Origin: United States
Date: 1883–1888
Medium: Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Signed, recto, center right, in brown ink: [artist's butterfly monogram]
Dimensions: 178 × 114 mm
Credit Line: Gift of Walter S. Brewster
Reference Number: 1933.298
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Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, 1995), pp. 338-339, no. 896 (ill.).

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.).

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.

Cat. 26 Portrait of Miss Maud Franklin, 1883/88

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