The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Study of a Nude dates from 1870/1873.

Study of a Nude, Fitzwilliam Museum

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 368).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Study of a Nude, Fitzwilliam Museum

Matilda Maria Gilchrist née Potter (1826-1886). Gilchrist posed for the etching Tillie: A Model [113] and probably for the figure at left in The White Symphony: Three Girls y087 and The Three Girls y088.

Technique

Composition

Study of a Nude, Fitzwilliam Museum

The White Symphony: Three Girls, Freer Gallery of Art

This is a study for the figure at left in The White Symphony: Three Girls y087 and The Three Girls y088.

History

Provenance

• By 1903: owned by Mrs Charles Julius Kino/Knowles (née Louisa Essinger) (b.1850, m.1874), Kensington Gore, London, until at least 1905;
• 1959: bequeathed by her son, Guy John Fenton Kino or Knowles (1879-1959), to the Fitzwilliam Museum.

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 368).

Exhibitions

• 1903: possibly Watercolours, Pastels, Drawings in Black and White, Sculptures and Bronzes By British and Foreign Artists Including A Selection of Works by H. B. Brabazon, and A Group of Works by the late James McNeill Whistler, W. Marchant & Co., Goupil Gallery, London, 1903 (cat. no. 17) as 'Study of the Nude'.
• 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. 189).
• 1905: Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 189) as 'Study of the Nude'.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 368) as 'Study of a Nude'.
• Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (oils, cat. nos. 87-8).

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Possibly Watercolours, Pastels, Drawings in Black and White, Sculptures and Bronzes By British and Foreign Artists Including A Selection of Works by H. B. Brabazon, and A Group of Works by the late James McNeill Whistler, W. Marchant & Co., Goupil Gallery, London, 1903 (cat. no. 17) as 'Study of the Nude'.
• 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. 189).
• Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 189) as 'Study of the Nude'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Drawing the Figure: from Leondardo da Vinci to Lucian Freud, 1999- 2000, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Websites

• Fitzwilliam Museum website.
• Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2012, online website.