The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

r.: Resting; v.: Standing figure date from 1870/1873. The recto may have been completed and signed about 1876.

r.: Resting, Freer Gallery of Art

v.: Standing figure, Freer Gallery of Art

They are fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 381).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Not identified.

Technique

Composition

v.: Standing figure, Freer Gallery of Art

Sea Beach and Figures, Fitzwilliam Museum

The figure on the verso is similar to A woman with her robe gathered up, leaning on a rail m0383. They appear to be studies for the figure at right in Figures by a railing m0382 and Sea Beach and Figures m0384.

History

Provenance

• 1885: bought through Messrs Dowdeswell, London, by Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934);
• 1902: bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919);
• 1919: bequeathed by C. L. Freer to the Freer Gallery of Art.

Exhibitions

• 1884: probably 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884 (cat. no. unknown).

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 381) as 'r.: Resting; v.: Standing figure'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Probably 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884 (cat. no. unknown).

Books, General

• Gunter, Ann C., A Collector's Journey: Charles Lang Freer and Egypt, Washington and London, 2002, p. 14-15, fig. 1.1.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 254, pl. 238.
• Myers, Kenneth John, Mr. Whistler’s Gallery: Pictures at an 1884 Exhibition, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003, p. 9, fig. 6.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1902.176a-d.