The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Study for 'Tillie: A Model' dates from 1870/1873. It is dated from the signature.

Study for 'Tillie: A Model', The Hunterian

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 369).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Study for 'Tillie: A Model', The Hunterian

Matilda Maria Gilchrist née Potter (1826-1886).

She 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 for 'Tillie: A Model', The Hunterian

The White Symphony: Three Girls, Freer Gallery of Art

This may be a study for the etching Tillie: A Model [113] and is closely related to the figure at left in The White Symphony: Three Girls y087 and The Three Girls y088, and to another drawing, Tillie: Study in Pink and Mauve m0370.

Technique

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 369).

History

Provenance

• 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death and bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958);
• 1935: given by Miss Philip to the University of Glasgow.

Exhibitions

By the terms of Miss Birnie Philip's gift to the University, the drawing can not be lent to other venues.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 369) as "Study for 'Tillie: A Model' ".
• 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).
• Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2012, online website.

Websites

• The Hunterian website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk.