Red chalk drawing of three figures around table
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Two women face each other in the foreground. The woman on the right is seated at a tall table, in profile facing left. Her legs are crossed, and her hands rest on the tabletop. On the left, a woman leans her elbows on the same table. Her body mostly faces away from the viewer and angles toward the other woman. Both women have their hair in buns. In the background on the left is another ambiguous figure. It is hard to determine from their gesture if they are sitting or standing, but they appear to be facing the foreground women.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.626
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
Two Figures Seated and One Standing
Other Titles
Former Title: Two Female Figures
Former Title: Two Models
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1866-1869
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308075

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk and graphite on cream laid paper, laid down to cardboard
Dimensions
actual: 20.7 x 18.4 cm (8 1/8 x 7 1/4 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
1943.626
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Denys Sutton, James McNeill Whistler: Paintings, Etchings, Pastels and Watercolors, Phaidon Press (London, England, 1966), p. 189, reproduced p. 48
  • Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1995), p. 108, no. 331, reproduced

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