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

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A woman and a baby asleep on a sofa

A woman and a baby asleep on a sofa was originally intended as a lithograph, which may have been drawn in Paris in late October or early November 1891. 1 It is dated by comparison with several lithographs including Mother and Child, No. 3 c052, Mother and Child, No. 2 c053 and Mother and Child, No. 4 c054. However, the pen drawing may have been done later (Whistler used purple ink during the period 1892-1894).


                A woman and a baby asleep on a sofa, The Hunterian
A woman and a baby asleep on a sofa, The Hunterian

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1304).

Notes:

1: Spink 1998 [more] , at vol. 1, 'Untransferred Lithographic Drawings', p. 503 (cat. no. V).

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