[Self-portrait of Whistler] – Antique Photo Print
![[Self-portrait of Whistler], [between 1898 and 1900] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f7/f75e8ab69895-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with [Self-portrait of Whistler], a historic drawing rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Self-portrait of Whistler]
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Measuring just 11 by 9 centimeters, this pen and brown ink sketch shows James McNeill Whistler studying his own face, a far smaller and quicker thing than the paintings it prepared. The catalog dates it between 1898 and 1900, and Joseph Pennell, Whistler's friend and biographer, linked it first to a full-length self-portrait shown at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900 and later to the painting *Brown and Gold*. On the back is a fragment of a letter in which Whistler thanks a newspaper, apparently the *Daily Mail*, and the drawing is signed with his butterfly monogram, a mark he used throughout his career.
| Created / published | [between 1898 and 1900] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : pen and brown ink ; sheet 11.2 x 8.8 cm. |
| Genre | 1983. Exhibited: Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, #3130, 1984. |
| Notes | Signed in ink with butterfly. Title from catalogue raisonné. On back with fragment of a signed letter: [Whis]tler's acknowledgements; [Dai]ly Mail [p]aralized with gratitude [a]t the delicacy and kind ... you chew the food ... readers-of course you; Pray receive my compliments, J. McNeill Whistler. In the 1905 Memorial Exhibition catalogue, Pennell stated this was a study for the full length self-portrait exhibited at the Exposition Universelle in Paris, 1900; in 1908 Pennell stated this was a study for Brown and Gold |
| Subjects | Whistler, James McNeill,--1834-1903. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,182 × 1,493 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218523 |
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