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

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M.0360
Studies of a man's head and a crouching woman

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1869/1872
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46028
Medium: pencil
Support: off-white laid paper
Size: 7 x 2 1/8" (177 x 54 mm)
Signature: 'Whistler'
Inscription: 'Horace / [Sauces] Ivory / For a drawing ... [illegible] / [If] I will if you will / Well good night / She sighed then sighed again / He's a damned liar' in various hands including those of Whistler and Walter Greaves

Studies of a man's head and a crouching woman

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 360) as 'Studies of a man's head and a crouching woman'.
  • Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (oils, cat. nos. 87-89).

Websites

  • The Hunterian website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk.

Last updated: 9th December 2020 by Margaret