The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

v.: Study of crouching figure dates from about 1893.

v.: Study of crouching figure, Private Collection

The drawing is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. nos. 688 and 1390).

Images

Subject

Sitter

v.: Study of crouching figure, Private Collection

Not identified.

Technique

Composition

v.: Study of crouching figure, Private Collection

The White Symphony: Three Girls, Freer Gallery of Art

This, like A crouching nude tending a flowering plant m1389, was thought to be a study for The White Symphony: Three Girls y087 The Three Girls y088, but the technique, as much as can be judged from a photograph, suggests a later date.

History

Provenance

See r.: Studies for a portrait; v.: Study of crouching figure m0688.

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. 688) and (cat. no. 1390) 'v.: Study of crouching figure'.