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Composition
La Sieste, Art Institute of Chicago
Nude Model, Reclining, lithograph, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The pose has been compared to Whistler's lithograph Nude Model, Reclining c073, but it is not very closely related.
Technique
La Sieste, Art Institute of Chicago
It is a drawing in lithographic crayon, with some scarping in the background and on the woman's left shoulder, and stump work that created the soft shading around the face. Numerous alterations to the outlines are apparent, and it was signed twice. It was intended for transfer to a lithographic stone but never transferred nor printed. It is on lithographic paper, papier viennoise, with a granular white-lead coating. 1
Notes:
1: See Spink 1998 [more] , vol. 1, 'Untransferred Lithographic Drawings', (cat. no. VII); Stephanie L. Strother, 'Cat. 33 Reclining Draped Figure, 1893: Curatorial Entry,' in Clarke, Jay A., and Sarah Kelly Oehler, eds., Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, website (cat. no. 33).
Last updated: 11th December 2020 by Margaret
