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

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M.0867
Girl reading in bed

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1882
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 27.5877
Medium: pen, dark brown ink and pencil
Support: pink wove paper
Size: 4 7/16 x 7 1/8" (113 x 181 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: 'By Whistler / 9" margin white / 3/4 white [illeg.] / as it is / 11 1/2 x 9 / 27.5877 R3672 / 8' in unknown hands

Girl reading in bed

Technique

Girl reading in bed, Art Institute of Chicago
Girl reading in bed, Art Institute of Chicago

See Stephanie L. Strother, 'Cat. 25 Girl Reading in Bed, c. 1882: Curatorial Entry,' in Clarke, Jay A., and Sarah Kelly Oehler, eds., Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, website (cat. no. 25). See also MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 867).

Last updated: 11th December 2020 by Margaret