The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Draped Nude may date from 1900, and was recorded in the following year, when Whistler's sister-in-law, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), listed among small panels in his studio at 8 Fitzroy Street on 16 February 1901, 'Draped nude figure. (Eva).' ¹

The panel has not been located but is dated from Whistler's known association with the model, Eva Victoria Carrington (1887-1979), who was posing around 1900. On 30 October 1900, for instance, Whistler asked Miss Birnie Philip to arrange for the studio in Fitzroy Street to be ready for Eva, 'I shall write a line to Mrs Burkitt that they may have a fire any how - and I will tell them to keep Eva that you may have her by you for a moment so as to keep every thing up.' ²

Images

Subject

Titles

Descriptive titles have been suggested:

• 'Draped nude figure. (Eva)'. ³
• 'Draped Nude' (1980, YMSM). ⁴

Description

Described by Miss Birnie Philip as 'Draped nude figure. (Eva)'. ⁵

Sitter

The Tambourine, The Hunterian

Eva Victoria Carrington (1887-1979). She posed nude or thinly draped for pastels including The Tambourine m1628 and A girl dancing to the left m1630.

Technique

Technique

Unknown.

Conservation History

Unknown.

Frame

Unknown.

History

Provenance

Unknown.

Exhibitions

Unknown.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 492) as 'Draped Nude'.

Authored by Whistler

• None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• None.

Journals 1855-1905

• None.

Monographs

• None.

Books on Whistler

• None.

Books, General

• None.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• None.

Journals 1906-Present

• None.

Websites

• None.

Unpublished

• None.

Other

• None.