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

 

M.0350.
A Composition: four nudes

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1868/1869
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46021
Medium: chalk
Support: brown wove paper laid down on card
Size: 7 1/8 x 11" (181 x 279 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

A Composition: four nudes

Composition

A Composition: four nudes, The Hunterian
A Composition: four nudes, The Hunterian
v.: Draped figures, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
v.: Draped figures, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY

This may be one of several sketches for an unrealised figure composition. The verso of r.: Study for 'Symphony in White No. 3'; v.: Draped figures [M.0322] (reproduced above) shows a similar group.

Technique

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 342).

Last updated: 9th December 2020 by Margaret