The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

r.: Draped Model; v.: Nude holding a parasol dates from 1870/1873 but may have been signed 1874/1875.

r.: Draped Model, Fitzwilliam Museum

v.: Nude holding a parasol, Fitzwilliam Museum

They are fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 388).

Images

Subject

Sitter

r.: Draped Model, Fitzwilliam Museum

Not identified. The model who posed for the recto also posed for r.: Standing draped figure; v.: Standing nude m0387 and r.: Draped figure standing; v.: Study of draped woman m0389.

Technique

Composition

r.: Draped Model, Fitzwilliam Museum

r.: Standing draped figure, Freer Gallery of Art

r.: Draped figure standing, Freer Gallery of Art

Variations on the pose seen on the recto are found in the recto of r.: Standing draped figure; v.: Standing nude m0387 and r.: Draped figure standing; v.: Study of draped woman m0389.

v.: Nude holding a parasol, Fitzwilliam Museum

v.: Nude figure, Leighton House

A faint rubbed-out study of a nude like that on the verso (Nude holding a parasol) is just about visible on the verso of r.: On the Thames at Chelsea; v.: Nude figure m0396.

History

Provenance

• 1903/1905: owned by Mrs Charles Julius Kino/Knowles (née Louisa Essinger) (b.1850, m.1874), Kensington Gore, London;
• 1940: deposited by her son, Guy John Fenton Kino or Knowles (1879-1959), in the Fitzwilliam Museum;
• 1959: bequeathed by Knowles to the Fitzwilliam Museum.

See details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 388).

Exhibitions

• 1903-1904: possibly Watercolours, Pastels, Drawings in Black and White, Sculptures and Bronzes By British and Foreign Artists Including A Selection of Works by H. B. Brabazon, and A Group of Works by the late James McNeill Whistler, W. Marchant & Co., Goupil Gallery, London, 1903 (cat. no. 20 or 30) as 'Draped Model, Study'.
• 1905: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 82) as 'Draped Model'.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 388) as 'r.: Draped Model; v.: Nude holding a parasol'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Possibly Watercolours, Pastels, Drawings in Black and White, Sculptures and Bronzes By British and Foreign Artists Including A Selection of Works by H. B. Brabazon, and A Group of Works by the late James McNeill Whistler, W. Marchant & Co., Goupil Gallery, London, 1903 (cat. no. 20 or 30) as 'Draped Model, Study'.
• Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 82) as 'Draped Model'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Songs on Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1998; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1999.

Websites

• Fitzwilliam Museum website.