The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0685
Nude standing, with legs crossed
Date
Nude standing, with legs crossed dates from about 1878.
Nude standing, with legs crossed, National Gallery of Art, DC
The drawing is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 685).
Images
Nude standing, with legs crossed, National Gallery of Art, DC
Subject
Sitter
Not identified.
Technique
Technique
Nude standing, with legs crossed, National Gallery of Art, DC
See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 685).
History
Provenance
- Date unknown: owned at some time by Albert Eugene Gallatin (1882-1952).
- 1928: probably one of four 'studies of nude' bought on 28 March from Charles Sessler (1854-1935), dealer, Philadelphia, by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971), Philadelphia;
- 1943: given to the National Gallery of Art;
- 1980: the Rosenwald Collection was moved from Alverthorpe to the National Gallery of Art.
Exhibitions
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. 685) as 'Nude standing, with legs crossed'.
Books, General
- Wadley, Nicholas, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawing, London, 1991, fig. 20, p. 23.
Websites
- National Gallery of Art website at https://www.nga.gov.