The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

r.: A female figure; v.: Nude dates from 1870/1873.

r.: A female figure, photograph, Pennell 1908, vol. 1, f.p. 142

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 366).

Images

Subject

Sitter

r.: A female figure, photograph, Pennell 1908, vol. 1, f.p. 142

Not identified.

Technique

Technique

r.: A female figure, photograph, Pennell 1908, vol. 1, f.p. 142

Known only from a photograph. See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 366).

History

Provenance

• By 1903: James Thomas Knowles (1831-1908);;
• 1908: Knowles sale, Christie's, London, 27 May 1908 (lot 381) as 'A Girl Putting on a Sandal', bought by 'Paterson'.

The earlier provenance is unknown.

Exhibitions

• 1903: possibly Collection of Pictures, Drawings, Prints and China, and Decorative Furniture, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1903 (cat. no. 32) as 'Pastel Sketch'.
• 1905: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 165) as 'A Female Figure.'

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 366) as 'r.: A female figure; v.: Nude'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Possibly Collection of Pictures, Drawings, Prints and China, and Decorative Furniture, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1903 (cat. no. 32) as 'Pastel Sketch'.
• Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 165) as 'A Female Figure.'

Books on Whistler

• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, repr. f.p. 142 as 'Nude Study'.