Scene from Bohemian Life

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Prints and Drawings

1855/57

James McNeill Whistler
American, 1834-1903

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Title: Scene from Bohemian Life
Origin: United States
Date: 1855–1857
Medium: Pen and black ink and black watercolor over graphite, with touches of white opaque paint (discolored), on tan laid paper laid down on cream board
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in image, in ink: "J. Whistler"
Dimensions: 224 × 240 mm
Credit Line: Gift of John F. O'Connell
Reference Number: 1956.350
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Nancy D. Pressly, “Whistler in America: An Album of Early Drawings,” Metropolitan Museum Journal V (1972), fig. 33.
Frances Spalding, Whistler (Oxford, 1979), pp. 9-12 (ill.).
Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, 1995), p. 65, no. 213 (ill.).
The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler: A Catalogue Raisonne, ed. Harriet K. Stratis and Martha Tedeschi (Chicago, 1998), p. 35.
Daniel Sutherland, Whistler: A Life for Art’s Sake (New Haven and London, 2014), p. 41.
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, 2013), checklist para. 10, cat. 9.1 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, “James McNeill Whistler,” 1968, pp. 20, 98-99, cat. 75 (ill.); also Utica, NY, Munson-Williams-Procter Institute, 1968.
Berlin, Nationalgalerie, “James McNeill Whistler,” 1969, cat. 62.
Art Gallery of Ontario, “The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler,” Nov. 24, 1984-Jan. 11, 1985.
Paris, Grand Palais, “Bohèmes: De Léonard de Vinci à Picasso,” Sept. 26, 2012- Jan. 14, 2013, p. 266, cat. 119 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, “Whistler and Roussel: Linked Visions,” June 20-Sept. 27, 2015, checklist para. 10, cat. 9.1 (ill.).

Given by John F. O’Connell, Chicago, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1956.

MacDonald 213

Cat. 6 Scene from Bohemian Life, 1855/57

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