The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0359
r.: Crouching figure in 'The White Symphony: Three Girls'; v.: Standing figure in 'The White Symphony: Three Girls'
Date
r.: Crouching figure in 'The White Symphony: Three Girls'; v.: Standing figure in 'The White Symphony: Three Girls' date from 1867/1870.
Crouching figure in 'The White Symphony: Three Girls, Freer Gallery of Art
Standing figure in 'The White Symphony: Three Girls', Freer Gallery of Art
They are fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 359) dated '189/70'.
Images
Crouching figure in 'The White Symphony: Three Girls, Freer Gallery of Art
Standing figure in 'The White Symphony: Three Girls', Freer Gallery of Art
The White Symphony: Three Girls, Freer Gallery of Art
Subject
Sitter
Not identified.
Technique
Composition
r: Crouching figure in 'The White Symphony: Three Girls, Freer Gallery of
Art
v: Standing figure in 'The White Symphony: Three Girls', Freer Gallery of
Art
The White Symphony: Three Girls, Freer Gallery of Art
These are early studies for The White Symphony: Three Girls y087.
Conservation History
See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 359).
History
Provenance
- 1902: bought with The White Symphony: Three Girls y087 from Thomas Way (1837-1915), London, through the art dealer William Stephen Marchant (1868-1925) by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit;
- 1919: bequeathed by C. L. Freer to the Freer Gallery of Art.
Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 359).
Exhibitions
- 1874: possibly Mr Whistler's Exhibition, Flemish Gallery, 48 Pall Mall, London, 1874 (cat. no. 13) as 'Crouching Figure for Large Picture'.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 359) as "r.: Crouching figure in 'The White Symphony: Three Girls'; v.: Standing figure in 'The White Symphony: Three Girls' ".
- Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (oil, cat. no. 87).
Catalogues 1855-1905
- Possibly Mr Whistler's Exhibition, Flemish Gallery, 48 Pall Mall, London, 1874 (cat. no. 13) as 'Crouching Figure for Large Picture'.
Books on Whistler
- Merrill, Linda, The Peacock Room. A Cultural Biography, New Haven and London, 1998, p. 99.
Books, General
- Prettejohn, Elizabeth, Art for Art’s Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Painting, New Haven and London, 2007, p. 113.
Catalogues 1906-Present
- Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 244, pl. 217.
Websites
- Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1902.139a-d, as 'Crouching Figure. Study for The White Symphony: Three Girls'.