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James McNeill Whistler

Nude Leaning on a Rail [recto], 1871/1874

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Medium

chalk and pastel on brown wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 27.4 × 18.4 cm (10 13/16 × 7 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 1995, no. 415, State recto

Accession Number

1943.3.8807.a

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

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Inscription

upper left in black chalk: (not deciphered); lower left in graphite by unknown hand: 2.12 6

Provenance

Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1931: Etchings, Lithographs, Original Drawings, and Autograph Letters by James A. McNeill Whistler, The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1931.

1955: The Drawing and the Print, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC; and Lowe Gallery, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 1955, no cat.

Bibliography

1995: MacDonald, Margaret F. James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1995, no. 415.

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