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Page with drawing of woman in draped garments on one side and nude woman on the other

This page has two separate drawings, one on one side and one on the other. On the recto side, a woman faces away from the viewer and toward the right. Her hair is up in a bun, and her right arm is bent with her elbow against her hip. She wears layers of floor-length white and tan drapery. On the verso side is a nude woman in the same hairstyle and posture. This drawing mostly consists of dark lines with little shading or other color.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.621
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
Draped Model; verso: Nude Model
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1872-1875
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308021

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Pastel on brown wove paper; verso: pastel
Dimensions
28.6 x 17.8 cm (11 1/4 x 7 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
V.G. Fisher; his sale to Knoedler, New York, March 13, 1914; their sale to Hunt Henderson, New Orleans, November 1916; his bequest to Tulane University, 1939; its sale to Grenville L. Winthrop; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.621
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), p. 244
  • Nathan Goldstein, Figure Drawing, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1976), p. 38, fig. 2.9
  • Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1995), p. 163, no. 448, recto and verso reproduced
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 409-410, cat. no. 438 A & B, reproduced in b&w

Exhibition History

  • Oils, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings by J. McN. Whistler, Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York, 04/02/1914 - 06/01/1914
  • Pastels, Etchings and Lithographs by Whistler, Kennedy and Co., New York, 11/01/1914 - 11/30/1914
  • Etchings, Lithographs, Paintings and Drawings by James McNeill Whistler, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, 11/01/1917 - 12/31/1917

Verification Level

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