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

 

M.0349
r.: Standing nude holding a bowl; v.: Study for 'Variations in Blue and Green'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1868/1870
Collection: Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: 1943.3.3.8805
Medium: r.: pencil, chalk and pastel; v.: chalk
Support: brown wovepaper
Size: 9 1/8 x 4 3/8" (232 x 112-135 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

r.: Standing nude holding a bowl; v.: Study for 'Variations in Blue and Green'

Provenance

  • Before 1928: owned by Hubert Maitland Budgett (1882-1951) , Master of Hounds, Kirtlington Park, Oxford;
  • 1928: sold at auction, Sotheby's, London, 27 November 1928 (lot 303), bought by Colnaghi's, London art dealers;
  • 1928: Kennedy, New York dealers, took half shares on 1 December 1928;
  • 1929: sold on 18 January 1929 to Charles Sessler (1854-1935) , Philadelphia;
  • 1929: bought on 28 March 1929 by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971) ;
  • 1943: given to the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC;
  • 1980: transferred from Alverthorpe to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

Exhibitions

Not known to have been exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 7th March 2021 by Margaret