Mother and Child

Artist James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903)

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1890

MediumPastel on brown paper

Dimensions9 1/2 × 7 in. (24.1 × 17.8 cm)
Overall, Frame: 16 3/8 × 13 1/4 × 1 in. (41.6 × 33.7 × 2.5 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Macon and Joan Brock Collection of American Art

Object number2023.4.10

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DescriptionThis is a pastel on brown paper that depicts a woman in a voluminous dress and cap with a child seated in her lap.
ProvenanceJohn H. Wrenn, by 1904 By family descent to a lady Sale: New York, Sotheby’s, December 2, 1982, lot 14 Private collection, Washington, DC Sally Engelhard Pingree, Washington, DC The Macon and Joan Brock Collection of American Art, 2022 Exhibition HistoryThe Works of Whistler, The Memorial Exhibition, Copley Society of Boston, February 1904, no. 115. Notes, Harmonies and Nocturnes: Small Works by James McNeill Whistler, M. Knoedler & Company, New York, November 30–December 27, 1984, no. 45. James McNeill Whistler: A Retrospective Exhibition, The Tate Gallery, London, October 12, 1994–January 8, 1995, no. 176; Musée d’Orsay, Paris, February 6–April 30, 1995; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 28–August 20, 1995. Songs on Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography, The Art Institute of Chicago, June 6–August 30, 1998, no. 98. "A Shared Vision: The Macon and Joan Brock Collection of American Art," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, December 8, 2023 — March 10, 2024.Published ReferencesMargaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours; A Catalogue Raisonné (London and New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995), 464–65, no. 128.