Drawing of reclining female nude on light brown paper
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

A light-skinned woman reclines facing the viewer. Her head points toward the right. Her chin is tilted back, and she looks back toward her right. Her arms are bent behind her head. The woman’s body is on a diagonal as if she is lying on a sloping surface. Behind the woman is an area of dark shading and some ambiguous shapes in gray and brown pastel. A horizontal line continues out from this area to the left. Other small, scattered lines suggest the shape of a room and lounging surface, but there is little clear detail apart from the woman.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.612
People
Follower of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Previously attributed to James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
Reclining Nude
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th-20th century
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308065

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Pastel on brown wove paper mounted on board
Dimensions
actual: 12.9 x 21.6 cm (5 1/16 x 8 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Hunt Henderson, New Orleans; his bequest to Tulane University, 1939; its sale to Grenville L. Winthrop, April 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
1943.612
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Christopher Reed, "Wrong!", Harvard Magazine (Cambridge, MA, September 2004-October 2004), vol. 107, no. 1, pp. 40-51, pp. 50-51, ill. p. 51 (color)

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