The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0349
r.: Standing nude holding a bowl; v.: Study for 'Variations in Blue and Green'
Date
r.: Standing nude holding a bowl; v.: Study for 'Variations in Blue and Green' date from between 1868 and 1870.
r.: Standing nude holding a bowl, National Gallery of Art, DC
v.: Study for 'Variations in Blue and Green', National Gallery of Art, DC
The drawings are fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 349) where they are dated '1868/73'.
Images
r.: Standing nude holding a bowl, National Gallery of Art, DC
v.: Study for 'Variations in Blue and Green', National Gallery of Art, DC
Variations in Blue and Green, Freer Gallery of Art
Subject
Description
r.: Standing nude holding a bowl, National Gallery of Art, DC
Recto: a standing nude woman, her head bent, turning to left, and holding a large shallow bowl.
v.: Study for 'Variations in Blue and Green', National Gallery of Art, DC
Verso: A rough sketch pf two figures, one seated at left, facing right, and one standing at right bending to left.
Technique
Composition
Study for 'Variations in Blue and Green', National Gallery of Art, DC
V: Variations in Blue and Green, Freer Gallery of Art
The drawing on the verso may be a study for Variations in Blue and Green y084.
Conservation History
The sketch was torn roughly and unevenly from a larger sheet.
History
Provenance
- Before 1928: owned by Hubert Maitland Budgett (1882-1951), Master of Hounds, Kirtlington Park, Oxford;
- 1928: sold at auction, Sotheby's, London, 27 November 1928 (lot 303), bought by Colnaghi's, London art dealers;
- 1928: Kennedy, New York dealers, took half shares on 1 December 1928;
- 1929: sold on 18 January 1929 to Charles Sessler (1854-1935), Philadelphia;
- 1929: bought on 28 March 1929 by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971);
- 1943: given to the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC;
- 1980: transferred from Alverthorpe to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Exhibitions
Not known to have been exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 349) as "r.: Standing nude holding a bowl; v.: Study for 'Variations in Blue and Green' ".
- Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 84, oil).
Websites
- National Gallery of Art website at https://www.nga.gov, as 'Standing female nude holding a bowl'.