An Unfinished Sketch of Lady Haden / James McNeill Whistler
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- Accession Number
- 1973/1.735
- Title
- An Unfinished Sketch of Lady Haden
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1834-1903
- Medium and Support
- lithograph with scraping on wove paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1895
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Family of Albert Kahn: through Dr. Edgar A. Kahn; Mrs. Barnett Malbin; Mrs. Martin L. Butzel
- Inscription
- On the stone, u.l.: Butterfly monogram
- Dimensions
- 40.5 cm x 26.9 cm (15 15/16 in. x 10 9/16 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Physical Description
- An older woman is shown seated against an undifferentiated background. She has a dark hat on and is sitting facing towards the right, although her head, tilted on an angle, faces the viewer. Most of the figure is drawn with cursory attention, but the face is very delicately but fully modeled.
- Subject Matter
- The sitter is Whistler half-sister, Deborah Delano Haden, née Whistler, the wife of Whistler's early mentor and later nemesis, Francis Seymour Haden. In the early years of Whistler's association with Haden, Whistler frequently drew the Haden children but after Whistler's rupture with Haden in 1867, Deborah was forbidden to see any of her family, many of whom resided in London. Whistler and his family were forced to resort to subterfuge in order to see Deborah. Haden received a knighthood in 1894; this tender portrait shows Whistler's sister at the age of 70.
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 923 x 1375
- File Size
- 88 KB
- Record
- 1973/1.735
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"An Unfinished Sketch of Lady Haden; James McNeill Whistler." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1973-sl-1.735/1973_1.735.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 28, 2024.