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

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M.0697
Study of a seated girl

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1878
Collection: Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight
Accession Number: WHL 3510
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 10 1/4 x 6 1/2" (260 x 165 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Study of a seated girl

Sitter

Unknown.

Comments

Study of a seated girl, Lady Lever Art Gallery
Study of a seated girl, Lady Lever Art Gallery
Woman seated, back view, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Woman seated, back view, The Courtauld Institute of Art

A similar study, probably a copy of Study of a seated girl [M.0697], and known as 'Woman seated, back view' or 'Back View of a Girl Seated', has been exhibited as by Whistler, but is not by his hand, nor signed by him. 1

Another figure study with a Dowdeswell provenance, A Study [M.0416], also had copies or variants by another hand. The firm was involved in acquiring drawings and canvases that might have been by Greaves or Whistler, or by Whistler touched up by Greaves.

Notes:

1: See Young, A. McLaren, James McNeill Whistler, Arts Council Gallery, London, and Knoedler Galleries, New York, 1960 (cat. no. 122) and A Private Collection of late 19th and 20th Century Paintings and Sculpture, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1983 (cat. no. 73, repr.).

Last updated: 28th May 2021 by Margaret