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

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M.0698
r.: Seated figure; v.: Dragonflies and a butterfly

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1878
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1905.152a-b
Medium: r.: chalk and pastel; v.: chalk and watercolour
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 10 1/2 x 6 13/16" (267 x 173 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

r.: Seated figure; v.: Dragonflies and a butterfly

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 698) as 'r.: Seated figure; v.: Dragonflies and a butterfly'.

Journals 1855-1905

  • Baldry, Alfred Lys, 'James McNeill Whistler: His Art and Influence', The Studio, vol. 29, 1903, pp. 237-45, repr. f.p. 238 as 'Seated Figure of a Woman Wearing a Long Full-Skirted Dress and a Hat'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, pp. 176, 255, pl. 90, 239.

Websites

  • Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1905.152a-b.

Last updated: 9th March 2021 by Margaret