The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0446
Nude with parasol
Date
Nude with parasol dates from 1872/1874.
Nude with parasol, Fogg Art Museum
The drawing is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 446).
Images
Nude with parasol, Fogg Art Museum
r.: Model with a Fan, Metropolitan Museum of Art
v.: Nude, Fogg Art Museum
Subject
Sitter
Not identified. She appears in Nude with parasol m0446, r.: Model with a Fan; v.: Draped woman with a fan m0447 and r.: Draped model; v.: Nude m0448.
Technique
Composition
Nude with parasol, Fogg Art Museum
r.: Model with a Fan, Metropolitan Museum of Art
v.: Nude, Fogg Art Museum
The nude figures in r.: Model with a Fan; v.: Draped woman with a fan m0447 and r.: Draped model; v.: Nude m0448, may have been studies for an unrealised composition.
History
Provenance
- By 1899: owned by John James Cowan (1846-1936), Edinburgh;
- 1899: two crayon sketches of nude figures were bought from Cowan on 19 June by Agnew's, London art dealers (#2824);
- 1899: sold on 20 June to Edmund Davis (1861-1939), London, who owned it until at least 1904.
- 1943: bequeathed by Grenville Lindell Winthrop (1864-1943) to the Fogg Art Museum.
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. 446) as 'Nude with parasol'.
Books on Whistler
- Menpes, Mortimer, Whistler as I Knew Him, London, 1904, repr. f.p. 102 as 'A Nude Study'.
Books, General
- Stebbins, Theodore E., Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, (eds), American Paintings at Harvard, Vol. 2, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Cambridge, MA, and New Haven, CT, 2008, pp. 408-10 (cat. no. 436) repr.
Catalogues 1906-Present
- Gillerman, Dorothy W., ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, 1969, p. 244.
- American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950, at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, 2006.
Websites
- Fogg Art Museum website.