JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER | UN APRÈS MIDI CHEZ VAN DYCK

JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER
1834 - 1903
UN APRÈS MIDI CHEZ VAN DYCK

inscribed with the artist's butterfly device; also inscribed in another hand "Un après midi/ chez Van Dyck"/Aug 10 1900 (lower right)
ink on paper
7 by 4 ¾ inches
(17.8 by 12.1 cm)

This work is included in the online revised catalogue raisonné of the artist's work prepared by Professor Margaret MacDonald of the University of Glasgow.

Condition Report:
The sheet is affixed to the support at two places on the reverse of the top edge. The sheet appears to be toned and there is very minor staining along the extreme edges. There are two pinholes to the right of the artist's butterfly device and one pinhole below the woman's left proper arm.

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Provenance:
William Heinemann, London, England, by 1905

Estate of the above (sold: American Art Association, New York, January 13, 1922, lot 206, as Portrait of a Lady Reading)

Dr. Max A. Goldstein, St. Louis, Missouri

Private collection, St. Louis, Missouri, 1941 (by descent)

Private collection, Florida, 1981

Hope Davis, New York, 1986

Acquired by the present owner from the above