James Abbott McNeill Whistler. 1834-1903.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) The Russian Schube. 1896. Lithograph. Way 112, Levy 160, Chicago 142.ii. 1896. Lithograph on laid paper. 7 x 5 1/2 (sheet 11 11/16) x 8). Provenance: the collector's seal of Otto Gerstenberg (Lugt 2785. Way lists 15 impressions in 2 states. The stone was erased November 4, 1903. Monogrammed in the stone, center right; signed in pencil with the butterfly in the lower margin. Housed in a spectacular 18 x 15 1/2 gold leaf frame. A fine impression of this extremely scarce image. $7,500.
According to the Pennells, as quoted in the Chicago catalog, "[Whistler] told us that he had taken a studio in Fitzroy Street, so that he could paint a large full-length portrait of J. in a Russian cloak - The Russian Schube, - which he thought the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts might like to have. But J. was called away from London. Mrs. Whistler grew rapidly worse, and the scheme was dropped, never to be taken up again.' Pennell and Pennell 1908. vol.2, p.169.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler.
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