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

 

YMSM 400
Nude Girl with a Bowl

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1892/1894
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46367
Medium: oil
Support: wood
Size: 51.4 x 32.2 cm (20 1/4 x 12 5/8")
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Nude Girl with a Bowl

Titles

Whistler's original title is not known. Only one title is recorded:

  • 'Nude Girl with a Bowl' (1970, exhibition catalogue, Nottingham). 1
  • 'Nude Girl with a Bowl' (1980, YMSM). 2

Description

Nude Girl with a Bowl, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Nude Girl with a Bowl, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

A figure composition, in vertical format. A young woman, nude, bends over to left, her left hand on her knee, and her right arm stretching down and forward to a pot plant. She has curly brown hair in a fringe that falls forward over her eyes. She wears a dark green cap or kerchief (shaped like a Phrygian bonnet) on the back of her head, bound with pink ribbons, the tag ends sticking out over her fringe. Behind her is a grey wall and either a grey chequered curtain or trellis at left.

Sitter

The model is unknown.

Notes:

1: Pickvance, Ronald, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903): An Exhibition of Works from the University of Glasgow Collection, Nottingham University Art Gallery, Nottingham, 1970 (cat. no. 4).

2: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 400).

Last updated: 30th November 2020 by Margaret