The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

A nude study dates from 1872/1875 but was signed much later, about 1890.

A nude study, Fogg Art Museum

The drawing is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 451).

Images

Subject

Sitter

The model has not been identified.

Technique

Technique

A nude study, Fogg Art Museum

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 451)

History

Provenance

• 1899: on 19 June Agnew's, London dealers, recorded buying two sketches of nudes, probably Nude with parasol m0446 and this, from John James Cowan (1846-1936), Edinburgh;
• 1899: sold on 20 June to Edmund Davis (1861-1939), London, and in his collection in 1915.
• 1919: probably with William Stephen Marchant (1868-1925), London dealer as 'Etude de Femme Nue'.
• 1939: bequeathed by Hunt Henderson (1869-1939), New Orleans, to Tulane University, New Orleans;
• 1941: sold in April with 20 other works, through the Macdonald Gallery, New York, to Grenville Lindell Winthrop (1864-1943);
• 1943: bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum.

Exhibitions

• 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. 173) as 'Drawing from the Nude, No. 1'.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 451) as 'A nude study'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• 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. 173) as 'Drawing from the Nude, No. 1'.

Books on Whistler

• Menpes, Mortimer, Whistler as I Knew Him, London, 1904, repr. f.p. 108 as 'Little 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. 408-10 (cat. no. 437), repr.

EXHIBITION:

• Gillerman, Dorothy W., ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 1969, MA, p. 244.

Journals 1906-Present

• Wood, T. Martin, 'The Edmund Davis Collection', Studio, vol. 64, March/May 1915, pp. 79-98, 228-45, repr. p. 5.

Websites

• Harvard Art Museums website at https://www.harvardartmuseums.org.