Sketch after "Arrangement in Brown and Black: Portrait of Miss Rosa Corder"

1879·Brush and brown wash, with pen and brown ink, on off-white laid paper·18 × 11.3 cm (7 1/8 × 4 1/2 in.)

<p>Caricaturist Carlo Pellegrini, an admirer of Whistler, participated in London’s club life. He was member of the Beefsteak Club as well as the Arts Club, where one evening he drew <a href="https://www.artic.edu/artworks/14376/portrait-of-whistler">an impromptu portrait</a> of Whistler on a scrap of paper and gave it to Justin McCarthy, an Irish literary figure and politician. About two years later, Whistler presented Pellegrini with a freely drawn sketch after his oil painting <em>Arrangement in Brown and Black: Portrait of Miss Rosa Corder</em> (1876–78; Frick Collection, New York), referring to the Italian-born artist in his dedication as “mon Eleve,” or “my pupil.”</p>

Catalogue

Year: 1879
Medium: Brush and brown wash, with pen and brown ink, on off-white laid paper
Dimensions: 18 × 11.3 cm (7 1/8 × 4 1/2 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: James McNeill Whistler

Artist

James McNeill Whistler

Painting

James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral allusion in painting and was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake".

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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