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

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M.0448
r.: Draped model; v.: Nude

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1872/1875
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 1943.621
Medium: chalk
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 11 1/4 x 7 1/8" (286 x 182 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

r.: Draped model; v.: Nude

Sitter

Not identified. It was catalogued several times (i.e. Christie's, London, 9 July 1906, lot 39)as being Joanna Hiffernan (b. ca 1843-d.1886), but she was not posing for Whistler at this time.

The same figure appears in Nude with parasol [M.0446], r.: Model with a Fan; v.: Draped woman with a fan [M.0447] and r.: Draped model; v.: Nude [M.0448].

Last updated: 22nd February 2021 by Margaret