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

 

M.1293
r.: Sleeping; v.: Standing Nude

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1890/1893, 1902/1903
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1902.114a-c
Medium: r.: chalk and pastel; v.: watercolour
Support: r.: brown wove paper laid down on card, v.: white paper laid down on the card stamped 'Newman'
Size: 6 15/16 x 10 1/16" (176 x 255 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: 'Paris', possibly by the artist

r.: Sleeping; v.: Standing Nude

Provenance

  • 1902: sold on 16 June by Whistler to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) , Detroit, but left with the artist for further work;
  • 1903: probably sent to Freer after Whistler's death;
  • 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

Further details are is given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1293).

Exhibitions

  • 1904: Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 120).

By the terms of Freer's will, this work cannot be lent to another venue.

Last updated: 6th December 2020 by Margaret