Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

 

M.0190
Figure in bed

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1854/1855
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Accession Number: 1970.121.32 (p.8)
Medium: pencil, pen and brown ink
Support: beige wove paper laid down on card
Size: 2 1/16-2 1/4 x 3 3/4" (52-56 x 96 mm)
Signature: 'J Whistler'
Inscription: none

Figure in bed

Technique

Figure in bed, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Figure in bed, Metropolitan Museum of Art

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 190).

Conservation History

This was among numerous drawings given to the Winans family and stuck into an album.

Last updated: 14th March 2021 by Margaret