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

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M.0867
Girl reading in bed

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1882
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 27.5877
Medium: pen, dark brown ink and pencil
Support: pink wove paper
Size: 4 7/16 x 7 1/8" (113 x 181 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: 'By Whistler / 9" margin white / 3/4 white [illeg.] / as it is / 11 1/2 x 9 / 27.5877 R3672 / 8' in unknown hands

Girl reading in bed

Girl reading in bed dates from 1882. It is dated from the signature.

Girl reading in bed, Art Institute of Chicago
Girl reading in bed, Art Institute of Chicago

Fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 867).

Girl reading in bed, Art Institute of Chicago
Girl reading in bed, Art Institute of Chicago
Girl reading in bed, Art Institute of Chicago
Girl reading in bed, Art Institute of Chicago

Last updated: 11th December 2020 by Margaret