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

 

M.1521
Nude tending a pot of flowers

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1898
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: pencil
Support: white laid paper, partial watermark '...N FI.../...LITY' with William Heinemann's yellow embossed monogram 'WH' and heading, '4 Whitehall Court/ S.W.'
Size: 5 15/16 x 7 11/16" (151 x 195 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: '?' in the hand of E. G. Kennedy

Nude tending a pot of flowers

Provenance

  • 1898: possibly drawn for Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932) , New York art dealer, passed to his brother, David A. Kennedy (fl. 1895-1915) , and, by family descent, to their great-nephew, Sarasota, Florida;
  • 1981: bought by a private collector, Sarasota;
  • 1984: consigned to Knoedler's, New York dealers, and sold to a private collector.

Further details are in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1521).

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whister's lifetime.

Last updated: 6th March 2021 by Margaret