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Pastel drawing of standing woman in profile wearing a sheer draped dress

The image for this drawing is black-and-white. A woman stands in profile facing right. She leans downward with her hands pressed between her thighs, just above the knee. Her hair is pulled up with a few loose curls at the nape of her neck. She wears a long, sheer dress that ripples over her body, indicated by thin horizontal lines over the length of the dress. The dress has an uneven, swirling hem with curly lines mirroring those of the woman’s hair. Some white highlighting is visible along the woman’s cheeks and shoulders as well as the gathers of the dress.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.608
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
Tillie: Study in Pink and Mauve
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Tillie, a Model
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1870-1873
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308001

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Pastel on brown wove paper
Dimensions
26.7 x 16.6 cm (10 1/2 x 6 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: c.r.: butterfly monogram
  • inscription: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, black ink: Bought of Mr. Whistler, March 1890

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sold by the artist to J. P. Heseltine, March 1890; sold to Colnaghi and Knoedler, February 25, 1919; sold to J.R. Annan, June 2, 1919; Leonard Gow, sold at auction after his death, May 28, 1937; sold to Knoedler and Carstairs, jointly, May 31, 1937; taken over by Carstairs, May 29, 1940; sold, to Grenville L. Winthrop (?), April 4, 1941; 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
1943.608
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • [Reproduction only], Revue Independente, (1886)., reproduced
  • Mortimer Menpes, Whistler as I Knew Him, Adam and Charles Black (London, 1904), p. 56
  • New Gallery, Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late J. McNeill Whistler, exh. cat. (London, England, 1905), no. 113a, reproduced facing p. 122
  • Elizabeth Robins Pennell and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, J. B. Lippincott/W. Heinemann (Philadelphia, PA and London, England, 1908), vol. I, p. 146, reproduced
  • "Whistler's Watercolours and Pastels", The Connoisseur (January 1938), vol. 101, pp. 37-38, p. 37, reproduced
  • Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), p. 243
  • Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1995), p. 127, no. 370 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. 396-398, cat. no. 428, reproduced in b&w

Exhibition History

  • Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler: First President of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, London, 02/22/1905 - 04/15/1905
  • L'Oeuvre de James McNeill Whistler, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 05/01/1905 - 06/30/1905
  • Whistler Pastels and Watercolors, Carroll Carstairs Gallery, New York, 01/12/1938 - 02/05/1938

Verification Level

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