The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0335
r.: Model Resting; v.: A woman's leg
Date
r.: Model Resting; v.: A woman's leg dates from 1866/1869.
r.: Model Resting, Private Collection
It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 335).
Images
r.: Model Resting, Private Collection
v.: A woman's leg, Private Collection
Draped model, Art Institute Of Chicago
Subject
Sitter
r.: Model Resting, Private Collection
Draped model, Art Institute Of Chicago
Not identified. It may be the same model as in Draped model m0332.
Technique
Technique
r.: Model Resting, Private Collection
v.: A woman's leg, Private Collection
See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 335).
History
Provenance
- 1880: probably sold with other drawings in Whistler's bankruptcy sale, Sotheby's, London, 12 February 1880 (lot 79) and bought by Marcus Bourne Huish (1843-1904), London.
- By 1888: according to Arlo Bates, sold by a Boston art dealer to a New York collector. 1
- By 1904: owned by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938), New York.
- 1949: with the Macbeth Galleries, New York. 2
- 1985: sold at auction, Doyle, New York, 24 April 1985 (lot 59) and bought by Richard H. Love, Chicago art dealer;
- 1985/1995: bought by a private collector.
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. 176) as 'Model Resting.'
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 335) as 'r.: Model Resting; v.: A woman's leg'.
Catalogues 1855-1905
EXHIBITIONS:
- Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 176) as 'Model Resting.'
SALE:
- Sotheby's, London, 12 February 1880 (lot 79).
Journals 1855-1905
- Anon., 'Art Sales', Academy, London, 21 February 1880, pp. 148-49.
- Bates, Arlo, The Book Buyer, vol. 4, Boston, January 1888.
- Boston Home Journal, 7 January 1888.
Catalogues 1906-Present
- James McNeill Whistler Seventeenth Anniversary Exhibition, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT, 1949 (cat. no. 75).
Notes:
1: Bates 1888 [more].
2: Lent by Macbeth to James McNeill Whistler Seventeenth Anniversary Exhibition, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT, 1949 (cat. no. 75).