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

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M.0685
Nude standing, with legs crossed

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1878
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: 1943.3.8806
Medium: chalk
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 11 1/4-11 5/16" x 7-7 3/16" (285-287 x 178-182 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: 'had sold for 70 gs- // A E. Gallatin', '1397' or '1597', 'A. 3170' and 'p314' in unknown hands

Nude standing, with legs crossed

Provenance

  • Date unknown: owned at some time by Albert Eugene Gallatin (1882-1952).
  • 1928: probably one of four 'studies of nude' bought on 28 March from Charles Sessler (1854-1935), dealer, Philadelphia, by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971) , Philadelphia;
  • 1943: given to the National Gallery of Art;
  • 1980: the Rosenwald Collection was moved from Alverthorpe to the National Gallery of Art.

Exhibitions

Not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 13th February 2021 by Margaret