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

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M.0687
A Nude Figure

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1878
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 27.5884
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 11 1/4 x 7 3/8" (285 x 187 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: r.: 'JLK' stamp (Charles Knowles) and 'No 6' in an unknown hand, very faint; v.: stamp 'CD' (Charles Deering, Lugt 516); '27.5884/ R3672/7' in unknown hands

A Nude Figure

Technique

A Nude Figure, Art Institute Of Chicago
A Nude Figure, Art Institute Of Chicago

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 687). See also Stephanie L. Strother, 'Cat. 18 A Nude Figure, c. 1878: 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. 18).

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