The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

The Dancing Girl dates from 1870/1873.

The Dancing Girl, Private Collection

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 379).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Unidentified.

Technique

Composition

The Dancing Girl, Private Collection

Sea Beach and Figures, Fitzwilliam Museum

Four women on a terrace by the sea, The Hunterian

Draped female figure m0378 and The Dancing Girl m0379 are studies for the figure at left in a projected figure composition, which was further developed in Sea Beach and Figures m0384 and Four women on a terrace by the sea m0385.

History

Provenance

• Date unknown: with Closson Galleries (label).
• By 1904: owned by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938), New York, probably until at least 1910.
• Date unknown: acquired by Edwin A. Seasongood (1876-1953), financier, New York, NY and Evanston, OH;
• 1951: E. A. Seasongood sale, Parke Bernet, New York, 5-6 November 1951 (lot 303).
• 1990: sold at Sotheby's, New York, 29 November 1990 (lot 50, repr.) and bought by Mr and Mrs Richard Waitzer;
• By 2018: private collection.

For full known provenance see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 379).

Exhibitions

• 1904: probably Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 129) as 'The Dancing Girl'.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 379) as 'The Dancing Girl'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Probably Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 129) as 'The Dancing Girl'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

SALE:

• E. A. Seasongood sale, Parke Bernet, New York, 5-6 November 1951 (lot 303).
• Sotheby's, New York, 29 November 1990 (lot 50, repr.).