James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Weary

Weary

Public Domain

Weary
ArtistAmerican, 1834–1903
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Weary
Date1863
PlaceUnited States
MediumDrypoint and roulette on laid paper, state III/III
DimensionsPlate/Sheet: 7 7/8 × 5 1/8 in. (20.1 × 13 cm)
 Mount: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number93.70
Not on view

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Department
Prints and Drawings
Object Type
ProvenanceJ.H. Hutchinson (d. c. 1892), London (Lugt 2921); [to his sale, Sotheby's, London, March 3-4, 1892]; Bertha Palmer Thorne; [consigned to Sotheby's, New York, Whistler and His Contemporaries, Property of the Estate of Mrs. Bertha Palmer Thorne, May 6, 1975, lot 29]; [Paul McCarron Susan Schulman, New York, by 1993]; purchased by MFAH, 1993.
Exhibition History

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscription: Inscribed in pencil on verso, bottom edge: "c 6859 exx - Weary, W. 63." Inscribed in pencil on mat/mount, bottom edge: "James Abbott McNeill Whistler 1834-1903 Weary Drypoint & roulette, 198 x 130 mm., 1863. K. 92, III/III Provenance: J.H. Hutchinson (L.2921) & Bertha Palmer Thorne $20,000-"
Signed in plate, lower left corner: "Whistler"
Catalogue raisonnéKennedy 92 (III/III)

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