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

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M.0348
r.: Study of a seated nude for 'Variations in Blue and Green'; v.: Two seated nudes

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1868/1870
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: chalk
Support: brown wove paper
Size: r.: 6 11/16 x 6 5/8"; v.: 7 x 6 1/4" (r: 170 x 169 mm; v.: 170 x 158 mm)
Signature: butterfly on verso
Inscription: none

r.: Study of a seated nude for 'Variations in Blue and Green'; v.: Two seated nudes

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 348) as 'r.: Study of a seated nude for 'Variations in Blue and Green'; v.: Two seated nudes'.
  • Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 84, oil).

Books on Whistler

  • Way, Thomas Robert, and G. R. Dennis, The Art of James McNeill Whistler: An Appreciation, 1st edition, London, 1903, facsimile of recto by T. R.Way repr. f.p. 94 as 'Nude Study'.
  • Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, verso repr. f.p. 26 as 'Study'.

Last updated: 6th March 2021 by Margaret