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

 

M.1068
Dancing girl

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1885/1890
Collection: The Higgins, Bedford
Accession Number: n/a
Medium: watercolour over pencil
Support: off-white wove paper
Size: 11 11/16 x 8 13/16" (297 x 224 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'J. McNeill Whistler/ Model draping (The model probably / one of the Pettigrews) / (ex Collection of Miss R.Birnie Philip) / the Artist's Executrix & Sister-in-law. / (Done during the Cheyne Walk period) / 1896 or later.' in Harold Wright's hand, and 'A22362' in an unknown hand

Dancing girl

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1068) as 'Dancing girl'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Treasures from Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford, 2009 (see website at http://www.thehigginsbedford.org.uk.

Last updated: 26th June 2021 by Margaret