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

 

M.1227
The Japanese Dress

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1870/1878, 1888/1890
Collection: Davison Art Centre, Wesleyan University, Middletown
Accession Number: 1952.D1.10
Medium: chalk, pastel and pencil
Support: brown wove paper laid down on card
Size: 10 1/2 x 7 1/16" (266 x 179 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: '2 Lindsey Houses - Chelsea'; v.: collectors' marks of J. Hutchinson, H. Mansfield; C. J. Sullivan; E. A. Seasongood

The Japanese Dress

Composition

The Japanese Dress, Davison Art Centre, Wesleyan University
The Japanese Dress, Davison Art Centre, Wesleyan University

If this was indeed started in the 1870s it must have been very thoroughly reworked, from another model, because it is typical of his work in the late 1880s and early 1890s.

Last updated: 9th March 2021 by Margaret