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

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M.0902
Maud reading in bed

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1883/1884
Collection: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Accession Number: W.971.26
Medium: watercolour, pen and brown ink, and pencil
Support: tan card
Size: 9 7/8 x 6 15/16" (251 x 176 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Maud reading in bed

Maud reading in bed dates from 1883/1884. It is dated from the subject, technique and signature. A similar subject, Convalescent or Petit Déjeuner; note in opal [M.0903] was probably exhibited in 1884.

Maud reading in bed, Hood Museum of Art
Maud reading in bed, Hood Museum of Art

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 902).

Last updated: 9th March 2021 by Margaret