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

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M.0685
Nude standing, with legs crossed

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1878
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: 1943.3.8806
Medium: chalk
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 11 1/4-11 5/16" x 7-7 3/16" (285-287 x 178-182 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: 'had sold for 70 gs- // A E. Gallatin', '1397' or '1597', 'A. 3170' and 'p314' in unknown hands

Nude standing, with legs crossed

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 685) as 'Nude standing, with legs crossed'.

Books, General

  • Wadley, Nicholas, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawing, London, 1991, fig. 20, p. 23.

Websites

  • National Gallery of Art website at https://www.nga.gov.

Last updated: 13th February 2021 by Margaret