The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

A Study dates from 1871/1874.

A Study, Fitzwilliam Museum

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 416).

Images

Subject

Sitter

A Study, Fitzwilliam Museum

Unknown. Similar drawings of the model by Walter Greaves (1846-1930) are in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Szepmuveszeti Museum, Budapest; all may have been drawn at the life-classes run by Victor Aristide Louis Barthe (b. ca 1839-d.1910) in his Limerston Street studio.

Technique

Technique

A Study, Fitzwilliam Museum

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 416).

History

Provenance

• By 1905: owned by Mrs Charles Julius Kino/Knowles (née Louisa Essinger) (b.1850, m.1874), Kensington Gore;
• 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.

Exhibitions

• 1903-1904: probably 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. 28).
• 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. 164) as 'A Study'.
• 1905: Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 125) as 'Study of Nude'.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 416) as 'A Study'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Probably 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. 28).
• 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. 164) as 'A Study'.
• Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 125) as 'Study of Nude'.

Websites

• Fitzwilliam Museum website.