Paintings in the Collection of Henry Clay Frick, 1925 [page 167]

Current Page Transcription

« previous page | next page » |

This transcription is now locked.

[beginning of page 167] JAMES ABBOT McNEILL WHISTLER (1834-1903) PORTRAIT OF ROSA CORDER Canvas, 35 1/2 inches by 76 inches initial: FULL length, life size, standing figure with her back towards the spectator, her body turned to the right and her face seen in profile. Her light brown hair is tightly coiled. She wears a black dress and a black coat, edged with fur, with white showing at the neck and down the front. Her right hand, hanging at her side, holds a brown felt hat with flowing brown feather. The background is dark, almost black; the floor is gray-brown. Mentioned in Bryan's Dict. of Painters and Engravers. " " Samuel Isham's Hist. of Am. Painting, 329. " (and illustrated) in Academy Notes, April 1911. Exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1879. " " " Salon des Artistes Françaises in 1890. " " " Glasgow, Munich, Liverpool. " " " Exposition Universal, St. Louis, 1904. " " " International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers in 1898, No. 178. " " " Memorial Exhibition at Boston, No. 25, and Paris, No. 21. " " " Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, 1911. Jacque Blanche, the painter, has said that Whistler once saw Miss Rosa Corder in her brown dress pass a door painted black and was struck with the effect of the color. The picture was begun at 2 Linsey Row, before 1876, as a commission from Charles Augustus Howell (Private Secretary to Ruskin and Dante G. Rossetti) Whistler's man of affairs. It was sold at Christie's with Howell's other effects in April, 1881, for 130 pounds. In 1902 Whistler saw to the vanishing of this picture when it was sold by Mr. Graham Robertson.


167


O E [end of page 167]

You don't have permission to discuss this page.

Current Page Discussion