The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Female Figure with Fan dates from 1873/1875.

Female Figure with Fan, Freer Gallery of Art

The drawing is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 534).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Female Figure with Fan, Freer Gallery of Art

Girl with a fan, University of Michigan Museum of Art

Not identified. The same model appears in Girl with a fan m0533.

Technique

Composition

Female Figure with Fan, Freer Gallery of Art

The Lady with the Fan, Freer Gallery of Art

What appears to be the same dress is seen in The Lady with the Fan m0535.

Technique

Female Figure with Fan, Freer Gallery of Art

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 534).

History

Provenance

• 1903: with William Stephen Marchant (1868-1925), London dealer;
• By 1904: owned by James Staats Forbes (1823-1904);
• 1904: on 7 June, Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, left a successful bid with Marchant for 14 drawings from the Forbes collection;
• 1919: bequeathed by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) to the Freer Gallery of Art.

Details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 534).

Exhibitions

• 1903-1904: possibly Watercolours, Pastels, Drawings in Black and White, Sculptures and Bronzes By British and Foreign Artists Including A Selection of Works by H. B. Brabazon, and A Group of Works by the late James McNeill Whistler, W. Marchant & Co., Goupil Gallery, London, 1903 (cat. no. 177 or 190) and 1904 (cat. no. 2 or 8) as 'Lady with a Fan.'
• 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. 392) as 'Female Figure with Fan.'

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. 534) as 'Female Figure with Fan.'

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Possibly Watercolours, Pastels, Drawings in Black and White, Sculptures and Bronzes By British and Foreign Artists Including A Selection of Works by H. B. Brabazon, and A Group of Works by the late James McNeill Whistler, W. Marchant & Co., Goupil Gallery, London, 1903 (cat. no. 177 or 190) and 1904 (cat. no. 2 or 8) as 'Lady with a Fan.'
• 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. 392) as 'Female Figure with Fan.'

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 253, pl. 235.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1905.141a-b as 'Young Girl Standing'.