The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

M.0381
r.: Resting; v.: Standing figure

r.: Resting; v.: Standing figure

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1870/1873
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1902.176a-d
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 5 13/16-5 7/8 x 2 7/8-31" (148-150 x 73-77 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

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
r.: Resting, Freer Gallery of Art

v.: Standing figure, 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

r.: Resting, Freer Gallery of Art
r.: Resting, Freer Gallery of Art

v.: Standing figure, Freer Gallery of Art
v.: Standing figure, Freer Gallery of Art

Sea Beach and Figures, Fitzwilliam Museum
Sea Beach and Figures, Fitzwilliam Museum

Subject

Sitter

Not identified.

Technique

Composition

v.: Standing figure, Freer Gallery of Art
v.: Standing figure, Freer Gallery of Art

Sea Beach and Figures, Fitzwilliam Museum
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

Exhibitions

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

Catalogues 1855-1905

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Catalogues 1906-Present

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