The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Studies of a man's head and a crouching woman dates from 1869/1872. The participants in the game of Consequences include Walter Greaves (1846-1930).

Studies of a man's head and a crouching woman, The Hunterian

The drawing is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 360).

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Subject

Description

Studies of a man's head and a crouching woman, The Hunterian

The much-folded sheet was used for a game of Consequences, and those taking part included Whistler and Walter Greaves (1846-1930). The sketch is unrelated to the game.

Sitter

Studies of a man's head and a crouching woman, The Hunterian

Unknown. Probably drawn from memory.

Technique

Composition

Studies of a man's head and a crouching woman, The Hunterian

The White Symphony: Three Girls, Freer Gallery of Art

The figure appears to relate to the central figure in The White Symphony: Three Girls y087, which was an oil study for The Three Girls y088

Technique

Studies of a man's head and a crouching woman, The Hunterian

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 360).

History

Provenance

• 1869/1873: possibly kept by Walter Greaves (1846-1930), and given much later to William Stephen Marchant (1868-1925);
• 1925: bequeathed to his widow, Cicely Gertrude Marchant (ca 1881-1955);
• 1955: passed to their descendants including their daughter Marjorie G. J. Marchant, Mrs Frederick (Tommy) Thompson (1906-1979);
• 1983: given to the University of Glasgow.

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 360); this record has been corrected.

Exhibitions

It was not 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. 360) as 'Studies of a man's head and a crouching woman'.
• Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (oils, cat. nos. 87-89).

Websites

• The Hunterian website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk.