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

 

Note in flesh colour and orange

Description

The Globe described it as a 'figure … strangely ill-proportioned'. 1 It was, according to Kay, a study of a woman with broad hips. 2

Sitter

Not identified.

Notes:

1: Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Sketches', Globe, London, 14 May 1886, p. 6.

2: Kay, Charles de, 'Whistler. The head of the Impressionists', Art Review, vol. 1, no. 1, 1886, pp. 1-3, at p. 2.

Last updated: 19th February 2021 by Margaret