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Portrait of Whistler

Carlo PellegriniLinkedCulture matchlcp-cb02bbe44771

Date: 1877
Medium: Brush and dark brown ink on off-white wove paper
Culture: Italy
Department: Prints and Drawings
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 14376

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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 this impromptu portrait 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 Arrangement in Brown and Black: Portrait of Miss Rosa Corder (1876–78; Frick Collection, New York), referring to the Italian-born artist in his dedication as “mon Eleve,” or “my pupil.”

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Credit line: Gift of Walter S. Brewster
Provenance: J. H. McCarthy. Walter Stanton Brewster (1872-1954, Lugt Suppl., 2651 a-b), Chicago, by November 25, 1922 [Brewster collection records]; given to the Art Institute, 1933.

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