The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Girl in transparent drapery dates from between 1885 and 1890; the signature suggests a date of ca 1888.

Girl in transparent drapery, Fogg Art Museum

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1078).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Unknown.

Technique

Technique

Girl in transparent drapery, Fogg Art Museum

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1078).

Frame

Frame by M. Grieve Co. A torn label on the verso reads '… Rue Ga... / ... l'Avenue de l'Opéra'.

History

Provenance

• By 1927: with Alphonse Kann (1870-1948);
• 1927: his sale to Grenville Lindell Winthrop (1864-1943) through Martin Birnbaum (1878-1970), July 1927;
• 1943: bequeathed to the Fogg Art Musueum.

The early history of this drawing is unknown.

Exhibitions

Unknown.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1078) as 'Girl in transparent drapery'.

Books on Whistler

• Duret, Théodore, Histoire de J. McN. Whistler et de son oeuvre, Paris, 1904, repr. p. 123.

Books, General

• Gillerman, Dorothy W. (ed.), Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 1969, p. 243.
• Stebbins, Jr., Theodore E., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, (eds), American Paintings at Harvard, Vol. 2, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008, p. 426-27 (cat. no. 453), repr.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Flowers of Evil: Symbolist Drawings, 1870-1910, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, 2016.

Websites

• Harvard Art Museums website at https://www.harvardartmuseums.org.