James McNeill Whistler

Brown and Gold: Self-Portrait



James McNeill Whistler - Brown and Gold: Self-Portrait



James McNeill Whistler
Brown and Gold: Self-Portrait
c. 1900
62.2 x 46.2 cm
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Gift of Edith Stuyvesant Gerry


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Andrew McLaren Young, Margaret MacDonald, Robin Spencer, The paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven, 1980, nr. 462 info

Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 851

Literature
Gary Tinterow and Geneviève Lacambre, Manet/Velazquez, New York, New Haven, 2003, fig. 14.87


Provenance

Sold by 1900 to George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914), Asheville, North Carolina, but retained in Whistler's studio until probably 1904
bequeathed 1914 to Vanderbilt's widow, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser Vanderbilt (later Mrs. Peter G. Gerry, died 1958), Asheville, North Carolina, and Providence, Rhode Island
gift 1959 to NGA

External links

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 1959.3.2

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