Mother and Child on a Couch
Watercolour
1890-1896 (made)
1890-1896 (made)
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Watercolour of a Mother and Child on a Couch'. The woman dressed in a pink sleeveless gown with a green headscarf or cap is sleeping on her side, cradling a young child.
Object details
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| Title | Mother and Child on a Couch (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour and gouache on Japan paper |
| Brief description | Watercolour and gouache, 'Mother and Child on a Couch', by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, ca. 1890-6. |
| Physical description | Watercolour of a Mother and Child on a Couch'. The woman dressed in a pink sleeveless gown with a green headscarf or cap is sleeping on her side, cradling a young child. |
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| Credit line | Presented by The National Art Collections Fund |
| Object history | Provenance: This may be the work titled 'Reclining figure with baby (violet and blue draperies)' in Miss Rosalind Birnie-Philip's (the artist's sister-in-law) inventory of Whistler's studio from 16 February 1901. Bequeathed to Miss R. Birnie-Philip in 1903; purchased by P. & D. Colnaghi, London in 1943; purchased by the National Art Collections Fund and given to the Victoria & Albert Museum. Three similar works, showing one or two young women tentatively identified as the Pettigrew sisters with a young child, are in the collection of the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow (GLAHA:46159, GLAHA:46161, GLAHA:46160). Whistler made a series of mother and child lithographic drawings and lithographs in the 1890s. |
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| Accession number | P.7-1943 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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