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

 

YMSM 497
Resting

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1898
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: oil
Support: unknown
Size: unknown
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown

Resting

Titles

One title is known:

  • 'Resting' (1898, Goupil). 1
  • 'Resting' (1980, YMSM). 2

Description

Unknown. Table Talk described it as 'nothing but a shapeless, meaningless mass of colour-blotches.' 3

The Little White Sofa, Fogg Art Museum
The Little White Sofa, Fogg Art Museum

However, it may be The Little White Sofa [YMSM 258], which is a slightly unusual composition, showing a draped nude lying on a white-draped sofa.

Sitter

Unknown.

Notes:

1: A Collection of Selected Works by Painters of the English, French & Dutch Schools, Goupil Gallery, London, 1898 (cat. no. 23).

2: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 497).

3: Table Talk, 19 March 1898, quoted in exh. cat., Goupil 1898 (2nd edition) p. xv (cat. no. 23).

Last updated: 30th October 2019 by Margaret