The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

r.: Model with a Fan; v.: Draped woman with a fan date from 1872/1875.

r.: Model with a Fan, Metropolitan Museum of Art

v.: Draped woman with a fan, Metropolitan Museum of Art

The drawings are fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 447).

Images

Subject

Sitter

v.: Nude, Fogg Art Museum

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

r.: Model with a Fan, Metropolitan Museum of Art

v.: Nude, Fogg Art Museum

The nude figure 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, which may have been studies for an unrealised composition.

History

Provenance

• By 1904: owned by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938), New York.
• 1931: bought from Harlow, New York dealer, by Harold K. Hochschild (1892-1981) on 12 August;
• 1940: given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in May 1940.

See details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 447).

Exhibitions

• 1904: Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 178) as 'Model with a Fan'.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 447) as 'r.: Model with a Fan; v.: Draped woman with a fan'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 178) as 'Model with a Fan'.

Websites

• Metropolitan Museum of Art website, recto and verso at https://www.metmuseum.org, as 'Female Nude with a Fan' and 'Woman with a Fan; Sketch of a Head'.