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

 

M.1307
Modèle drapé, debout devant une balustrade

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1891/1892
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46164
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 9" (295 x 227 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Modèle drapé, debout devant une balustrade

Modèle drapé, debout devant une balustrade was originally intended as a lithograph, and may have been drawn as such in Paris in late October or early November 1891. It is dated from the technique and comparison with two successful lithographs, Nude Model, Back View c045 and Draped Figure, Standing c046. 1 However, after being rejected as a lithograph, the composition could well have been redrawn in pen and ink in the following year.

Modèle drapé, debout devant une balustrade. The Hunterian
Modèle drapé, debout devant une balustrade. The Hunterian

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1307) as '1890/1894'.

Notes:

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

Last updated: 7th December 2020 by Margaret