The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0387
r.: Standing draped figure; v.: Standing nude
Date
r.: Standing draped figure; v.: Standing nude date from 1870/1873, the recto being signed about 1874.
r.: Standing draped figure, Freer Gallery of Art
v.: Standing nude, Freer Gallery of Art
They are fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 387).
Images
r.: Standing draped figure, Freer Gallery of Art
v.: Standing nude, Freer Gallery of Art
r.: Draped Model, Fitzwilliam Museum
v.: Nude study, Freer Gallery of Art
Subject
Sitter
r.: Standing draped figure, Freer Gallery of Art
Not identified. This model posed for several drawings, including r.: Draped Model; v.: Nude holding a parasol m0388.
Technique
Composition
r.: Standing draped figure, Freer Gallery of Art
r.: Draped Model, Fitzwilliam Museum
Standing draped figure is closely related to the drawings on the recto of r.: Draped Model; v.: Nude holding a parasol m0388 and r.: Draped figure standing; v.: Study of draped woman m0389.
v.: Standing nude, Freer Gallery of Art
v.: Nude study, Freer Gallery of Art
The Standing nude on the verso is in a pose similar to the nude on the verso of r.: Morning Glories; v.: Nude study m0410 and several other studies including A Nude m0413.
History
Provenance
- Before 1904: owned by James Staats Forbes (1823-1904);
- 1904-1905: Executors of James Staats Forbes;
- 1905: bought through William Stephen Marchant (1868-1925), London art dealer, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit;
- 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.
Exhibitions
- 1903-1904: 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. 10).
- 1904-1905: Pictures presented to the City of Dublin to form the Nucleus of a Gallery of Modern Art, also pictures lent by the executors of the late James Staats Forbes and others, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 1904 (label; cat. no. unknown).
- 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. 391) as 'Female Figure, Back'.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 387) as 'r.: Standing draped figure; v.: Standing nude'.
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. 10).
- Pictures presented to the City of Dublin to form the Nucleus of a Gallery of Modern Art, also pictures lent by the executors of the late James Staats Forbes and others, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 1904 (label; cat. no. unknown).
- 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. 391) as 'Female Figure, Back'.
Books on Whistler
- Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, repr. f.p. 138.
Catalogues 1906-Present
- Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 240, pl. 210.
Websites
- Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1905.134a-c.