The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

M.0484
r.: Nocturne: Battersea Bridge; v.: Standing Female Nude

r.: Nocturne: Battersea Bridge; v.: Standing Female Nude

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1872/1873
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1904.64a-c
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper laid down on card
Size: 7 1/8-7 3/16 x 11" (181-183 x 280 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Date

r.: Nocturne: Battersea Bridge; v.: Standing Female Nude date from 1872/1873.

r:  Nocturne: Battersea Bridge, Freer Gallery of Art
r: Nocturne: Battersea Bridge, Freer Gallery of Art

v.:  Standing Female Nude, Freer Gallery of Art
v.: Standing Female Nude, Freer Gallery of Art

The drawings are fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 484).

Images

r.:  Nocturne: Battersea Bridge, Freer Gallery of Art
r.: Nocturne: Battersea Bridge, Freer Gallery of Art

v.:  Standing Female Nude, Freer Gallery of Art
v.: Standing Female Nude, Freer Gallery of Art

Blue and Silver: Screen, with Old Battersea Bridge, The Hunterian
Blue and Silver: Screen, with Old Battersea Bridge, The Hunterian

Subject

Site

r.: Nocturne: Battersea Bridge, Freer Gallery of Art
r.: Nocturne: Battersea Bridge, Freer Gallery of Art

Old Battersea Bridge over the River Thames in Chelsea, London.

Sitter

v.:  Standing Female Nude, Freer Gallery of Art
v.: Standing Female Nude, Freer Gallery of Art

The nude could be a girl or young man, possibly Fusco (fl. 1870s) (also referred to as 'Fosco') who posed for Fusco [106].

Technique

Composition

r.: Nocturne: Battersea Bridge, Freer Gallery of Art
r.: Nocturne: Battersea Bridge, Freer Gallery of Art

Blue and Silver: Screen, with Old Battersea Bridge, The Hunterian
Blue and Silver: Screen, with Old Battersea Bridge, The Hunterian

The composition is closely related to that of Blue and Silver: Screen, with Old Battersea Bridge y139.

Technique

r.:  Nocturne: Battersea Bridge, Freer Gallery of Art
r.: Nocturne: Battersea Bridge, Freer Gallery of Art

v.:  Standing Female Nude, Freer Gallery of Art
v.: Standing Female Nude, Freer Gallery of Art

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 484).

History

Provenance

The earlier provenance is unknown.

Exhibitions

By the terms of C. L. Freer's will, this drawing can not be lent to other venues.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

Catalogues 1855-1905

Catalogues 1906-Present

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