The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

A nude holding up a parasol dates from 1870/1873.

A nude holding up a parasol, The Hunterian

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 372).

Images

Subject

Sitter

A nude holding up a parasol, The Hunterian

Not identified.

Technique

Composition

A nude holding up a parasol, The Hunterian

The White Symphony: Three Girls, Freer Gallery of Art

The drawing is one of several for the figure at right in The White Symphony: Three Girls y087.

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

It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

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. 372) as 'A nude holding up a parasol'.
• 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).

Websites

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