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

 

M.0373
Nude with parasol

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1870/1873
Collection: Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Accession Number: AC 1948.46
Medium: chalk, charcoal, crayon
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 10 7/8 x 7 1/16-7 5/16" (276 x 180-186 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'HM' stamp (Howard Mansfield)

Nude with parasol

Composition

Nude with parasol, Amherst College
Nude with parasol, Amherst College
The White Symphony: Three Girls, Freer Gallery of Art
The White Symphony: Three Girls, Freer Gallery of Art

The drawing is one of several for the figure at right in The White Symphony: Three Girls [YMSM 087].

Technique

It is possible that the drawing was touched up later: the soft outlines are more like Whistler's work in the 1890s than the 1870s.

Last updated: 15th February 2021 by Margaret