The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0373
Nude with parasol
Date
Nude with parasol probably dates from 1870/1873, but could date from later in the 1870s, and may have been touched up much later.
Nude with parasol, Amherst College
It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 373).
Images
Nude with parasol, Amherst College
The White Symphony: Three Girls, Freer Gallery of Art
Subject
Sitter
Not identified.
Technique
Composition
Nude with parasol, Amherst College
The White Symphony: Three Girls, Freer Gallery of Art
The drawing is one of several for the figure at right in The White Symphony: Three Girls y087.
Technique
It is possible that the drawing was touched up later: the soft outlines are more like Whistler's work in the 1890s than the 1870s.
History
Provenance
- Date unknown: owned by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938), New York.
- 1948: bought from W. Macbeth, New York art dealer, by Amherst College, 27 October 1948.
No other provenance is known.
Exhibitions
No lifetime exhibition is recorded.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 373) as 'Nude with parasol'.
- 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. 87-88).
Websites
- Collections Database Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium, website at http://museums.fivecolleges.edu.