The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

r.: Nude leaning on a rail; v.: Standing figure date from 1871/1874.

r.: Nude leaning on a rail, National Gallery of Art, DC

v.: Standing figure, National Gallery of Art, DC

The drawings are fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 415).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Not identified.

Technique

Conservation History

It darkened with the old mount.

History

Provenance

• Before 1928: owned by Hubert Maitland Budgett (1882-1951), Master of Hounds, Kirtlington Park, Oxford;
• 1928: sold at auction, Sotheby's, London, 27 November 1928 (lot 303, repr.) as 'A girl full length standing turned to the right leaning on a rail' and bought by Colnaghi's, London art dealers (#A5223);
• 1928: Kennedy, New York dealers, took half shares on 1 December 1928;
• 1929: sold by Kennedy, probably to Charles Sessler (1854-1935), Philadelphia dealer;
• 1929: bought by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971), 28 March 1929;
• 1943: given to the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC;
• 1980: transferred from Alverthorpe to the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

Exhibitions

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

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 415) as 'r.: Nude leaning on a rail; v.: Standing figure'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Sotheby's, London, 27 November 1928 (lot 303, repr.).

Websites

• National Gallery of Art website at https://www.nga.gov.