The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0484
r.: Nocturne: Battersea Bridge; v.: Standing Female Nude
Date
r.: Nocturne: Battersea Bridge; v.: Standing Female Nude date from 1872/1873.
r: Nocturne: Battersea Bridge, 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
v.: Standing Female Nude, Freer Gallery of Art
Blue and Silver: Screen, with Old Battersea Bridge, The Hunterian
Subject
Site
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
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
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
v.: Standing Female Nude, Freer Gallery of Art
See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 484).
History
Provenance
- 1904: bought from Colnaghi's, London art dealers, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) on 21 July 1904;
- 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.
The earlier provenance is unknown.
Exhibitions
- 1874: possibly Mr Whistler's Exhibition, Flemish Gallery, 48 Pall Mall, London, 1874 (cat. no. 36) as 'Old Battersea Bridge.'
By the terms of C. L. Freer's will, this drawing can not be lent to other venues.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 484) as 'r.: Nocturne: Battersea Bridge; v.: Standing Female Nude'.
Catalogues 1855-1905
- Possibly Mr Whistler's Exhibition, Flemish Gallery, 48 Pall Mall, London, 1874 (cat. no. 36) as 'Old Battersea Bridge.'
Catalogues 1906-Present
- Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 246, pl. 220.
- Komanecky, Michael, The Folding Image: Screens by Western Artists of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, New Haven, 1984, p. 63, fig. 60 (not exhibited).
- MacDonald, Margaret, and Patricia de Montfort, An American in London: Whistler and the Thames, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Addison Gallery of American Art, Freer Gallery of Art, 2013-2014 (cat. no. 70, repr.).
Websites
- Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1904.64a-c.