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

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M.1307
Modèle drapé, debout devant une balustrade

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1891/1892
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46164
Medium: r.: pen and black ink; v.: lithographic crayon
Support: thin transparent transfer paper with blind stamp 'IMPRIME PAR / BELFOND & CIE / PARIS', edge-mounted on ivory card
Size: 11 1/2 x 9" (295 x 227 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Modèle drapé, debout devant une balustrade

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Modèle drapé, debout devant une balustrade. The Hunterian
Modèle drapé, debout devant une balustrade. The Hunterian

Unidentified. It has been suggested that this was a model nicknamed 'Tootsie' (name unknown) (fl. 1900) and that she may have been Carmen Rossi (fl. 1880/1901). 1 'Tootsie' was so named by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) on a watercolour, The Pink Cap [M.1308], and on an impression of the lithograph Draped Figure, Standing c046. However, this is not certain, as the model (as seen in the lithograph) appears to have a rounder face, different from a technically similar drawing, Modèle nu, debout, passant une robe [M.1306].

Notes:

1: Spink 1998 [more] , pp. 174, 502.

Last updated: 7th December 2020 by Margaret