The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Standing nude dates from 1883/1886 and was signed about 1886.

Standing nude, Revue Indépendente, 1886, repr.

This work is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 955).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Unknown.

Technique

Technique

Standing nude, Revue Indépendente, 1886, repr.

It appears to be highly finished, but is known only from a reproduction.

History

Provenance

Unknown. The only records of this are two reproductions, one in 1886, and one by Théodore Duret (1838-1927) in 1904, both in France.

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. 955) as 'Standing nude'.

Journals 1855-1905

• Revue Indépendente de Littérature et d'Art, nouvelle série, tome 1, 1886, 'L'édition de luxe contient, en double tirage, sur japon et chine, quatre études de James M.R. [sic] Whistler'.

Books on Whistler

• Duret, Théodore, Histoire de J. McN. Whistler et de son oeuvre, Paris, 1904, repr. p. 125.