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

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A nude study

Provenance

  • 1899: on 19 June Agnew's, London dealers, recorded buying two sketches of nudes, probably Nude with parasol [M.0446] and this, from John James Cowan (1846-1936) , Edinburgh;
  • 1899: sold on 20 June to Edmund Davis (1861-1939) , London, and in his collection in 1915.
  • 1919: probably with William Stephen Marchant (1868-1925) , London dealer as 'Etude de Femme Nue'.
  • 1939: bequeathed by Hunt Henderson (1869-1939) , New Orleans, to Tulane University, New Orleans;
  • 1941: sold in April with 20 other works, through the Macdonald Gallery, New York, to Grenville Lindell Winthrop (1864-1943) ;
  • 1943: bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum.

Exhibitions

  • 1905: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 173) as 'Drawing from the Nude, No. 1'.

Last updated: 26th February 2021 by Margaret