Alice Pike Barney (1857-1931)
James McNeill Whistler, 1898
pastel on paperboard
48.9 x 48.9 cm (19 1/4 x 19 1/4 in.)
Gift of Laura Dreyfus Barney and Natalie Clifford Barneyin memory of their mother, Alice Pike BarneyDuring one of his after-class visits, Alice Pike Barney asked Whistlerif she could sketch him. "It is very amusingly done, dearlady," was his comment on the drawing.
Source: Jean L. Kling, Alice Pike Barney: Her Life andArt (Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Artin association with Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994),127. Copyright 1994 Smithsonian Institution.