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

 

M.0335
r.: Model Resting; v.: A woman's leg

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1866/1869
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: chalk
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 9 9/16 x 6 15/16" (243 x 177 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'No. 3 Whistler Drawing - Model Resting, Howard Mansfield Collection MAU os 47' and '8588' in unknown hands

r.: Model Resting; v.: A woman's leg

Provenance

  • 1880: probably sold with other drawings in Whistler's bankruptcy sale, Sotheby's, London, 12 February 1880 (lot 79) and bought by Marcus Bourne Huish (1843-1904) , London.
  • By 1888: according to Arlo Bates, sold by a Boston art dealer to a New York collector. 1
  • By 1904: owned by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) , New York.
  • 1949: with the Macbeth Galleries, New York. 2
  • 1985: sold at auction, Doyle, New York, 24 April 1985 (lot 59) and bought by Richard H. Love, Chicago art dealer;
  • 1985/1995: bought by a private collector.

Exhibitions

  • 1904: Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 176) as 'Model Resting.'

Notes:

1: Bates 1888 [more] .

2: Lent by Macbeth to James McNeill Whistler Seventeenth Anniversary Exhibition, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT, 1949 (cat. no. 75).

Last updated: 27th April 2021 by Margaret