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

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M.1609
A draped model reclining with a fan

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1900
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46286
Medium: pen and black ink
Support: cream wove paper with watermark ‘T. B. & Co.’
Size: 97 x 76 mm (4 1/8 x 3")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: fragment of a draft letter to an unknown recipient

A draped model reclining with a fan

A draped model reclining with a fan probably dates from about 1900, and was written on the reverse of a fragment of an unrelated letter from Whistler to an unknown recipient. 1 Yhe sofa is seen in drawings from those dates, and particularly around 1900 (see, for instance, Ethel Warwick asleep on a sofa [M.1604]).

A draped model reclining with a fan, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
A draped model reclining with a fan, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1609).

Notes:

1: Fragment, [June 1896/1897], GUW #09586. The final version of the letter bears a deep mourning border, indicating a date after Whistler's wife died in 1896, and gives the address of 8 Fitzroy Street, Whistler's studio from that date until his death (GUW #09619).

Last updated: 9th December 2020 by Margaret