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

 

M.1306
Modèle nu, debout, passant une robe

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1891/1892
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46163
Medium: r.: pen and black ink; v.: lithographic crayon
Support: thin transparent transfer paper with blind stamp 'IMPRIME PAR / BELFOND & CIE / PARIS', edge-mounted on ivory card
Size: 11 1/2 x 7 7/8" (293 x 200 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Modèle nu, debout, passant une robe

Sitter

It has been suggested that this was a model nicknamed 'Tootsie' (name unknown) (fl. 1900) and that she may have been, in fact, the young Carmen Rossi (fl. 1880/1901) . 1 'Tootsie' was so named by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), writing on a watercolour, The Pink Cap [M.1308], and on an impression of the lithograph Draped Figure, Standing c046.

Notes:

1: Spink 1998 [more] , pp. 174, 502.

Last updated: 7th December 2020 by Margaret