Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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Maud Reading, in a Hammock

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1880
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 1943.330
Medium: watercolour over pencil
Support: cream wove paper, laid down on card
Size: 5 3/8 x 9" (137 x 228 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'Presented to George E. Hopkins / by J McNeill Whistler/ Venice July 11th 1880.' in an unknown hand
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Maud Reading, in a Hammock

Site

According to the Pennells it was painted 'at the rooms of Mrs George E. Hopkins who was then living next to Whistler on the Riva degli Schiavoni.' 1

Sitter

Maud Reading, in a Hammock, Fogg Art Museum
Maud Reading, in a Hammock, Fogg Art Museum

Maud Franklin (1857-1939), who joined Whistler in Venice.

Notes:

1: Pennell 1908 [more], vol. 2, repr. f.p. 28.

Last updated: 10th February 2021 by Margaret