The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0448
r.: Draped model; v.: Nude
Date
r.: Draped model; v.: Nude date from 1872/1875.
r.: Draped model, Fogg Art Museum
v.: Nude, Fogg Art Museum
The drawings are fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 448).
Images
r.: Draped model, Fogg Art Museum
v.: Nude, Fogg Art Museum
r.: Model with a Fan, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Subject
Sitter
Not identified. It was catalogued several times (i.e. Christie's, London, 9 July 1906, lot 39)as being Joanna Hiffernan (b. ca 1843-d.1886), but she was not posing for Whistler at this time.
The same 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.
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
- 1906: sold at auction, Christie's, London, 9 July 1906 (lot 39) as 'A Study of a draped female figure, from the artist's model "Jo" [sic]', and bought by Colnaghi, London dealers.
- 1914: 'Study of his Model "Joe" draped & nude' bought from V. G. Fischer, New York, by Knoedler, New York dealers, 13 March;
- 1916: sold by Knoedler's to Hunt Henderson (1869-1939), New Orleans, in November (#13442);
- 1939: bequeathed to Tulane University, New Orleans;
- 1941: bought with twenty other works by Grenville Lindell Winthrop (1864-1943);
- 1943: bequeathed 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. 448) as 'r.: Draped model; v.: Nude'.
Catalogues 1906-Present
COLLECTION:
- 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. 409-10 (cat. no. 438).
Websites
- Harvard Art Museums website at https://harvardartmuseums.org.