James McNeill Whistler
Brown and Gold: Self-Portrait
c. 190062.2 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
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
Other works by James Abbott McNeill Whistler
The Orange Seller
Sea Shore. Arrangement in Grey and Black
Black and Emerald: Coal Mine
1883/84
1883/84
Violet and Silver: A Deep Sea
1893
1893
The Pier: A Grey Note
c. 1884
c. 1884