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

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M.1522
Nude figure standing

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1898
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: paper
Size: 11 3/8 x 7 1/8" (288 x 187 mm)
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown

Nude figure standing

Description

It was described by Joseph Pennell (1860-1926) as 'Nude figure standing to the right. Black chalk, with touches of colour on her body' and by Elisabeth Luther Cary (1867-1936) as 'Figure faces to the right. Hair brown. Touches of white pastel back of figure. Touches of fleshcolour on body'. 1

Notes:

1: Joseph Pennell, list for a catalogue raisonné, LC PC. Cary 1907[more] , p. 186.

Last updated: 6th March 2021 by Margaret