- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1943.611
- People
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Frame by M. Grieve Co.
- Title
- Girl in Transparent Drapery
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1885 - 1890
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/308004
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Pastel on brown wove paper, mounted on board
- Dimensions
- 27.9 x 18.2 cm (11 x 7 3/16 in.)
frame: 44.5 × 34.3 cm (17 1/2 × 13 1/2 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: Black and blue pastel, l.l.: butterfly monogram
- inscription: verso, blue crayon: [at top center:] 9753; [at bottom center:] 2983
- label: verso, printed in blue ink: partially torn label: ...Rue Ga... / ... l'Avenue de l'Opéra
- Provenance
- Alphonse Kann; his sale to Grenville L. Winthrop through Martin Birnbaum, July 1927; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.611
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Theodore Duret, Histoire de J. McN. Whistler et de son Oeuvre., Henri Floury (Paris, France, 1904), reproduced, p. 123
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), pp. 402 - 403, no. 1078, 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. 426-427, cat. no. 453, reproduced in b&w
- Exhibition History
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