
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002230Reclining Draped Figure
Inscriptions
Signed recto, center left and upper right, in lithographic crayon: [artist's butterfly monogram]
Provenance
Carmen Rossi, probably acquired from Whistler's studio, 1903 [MacDonald 1995; Stratis and Tedeschi 1998]. Sold, Drouot, Paris, November 25, 1903, lot 7, as "La Sieste." Sold, Drouot, Paris, May 27, 1924, lot 137, as "Sommeil." Sold by Marcel Guiot, Paris, to Walter S. Brewster (1872-1954), Chicago, June 25, 1924 [Macdonald 1995; stamp (Lugt 2651 a-b), mount, lower left, in blue]; given to the Art Institute, 1933.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Summer Exhibitions, James McNeill Whistler - Paintings, Prints, Whistleriana," July 20-October 29, 1939, cat. 6, as “Asleep.” The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Old and New," February 1946, p. 26, pl. 26, cat. 55 (ill.), as “Reclining Draped Nude.” The Art Institute of Chicago, "Whistler and Roussel: Linked Visions," June 20-September 27, 2015, Essay para. 11, fig 13 (ill.), Checklist para. 4, cat. 3.4 (ill.).
Publications
Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné (London, 1995), p. 475, no. 1312 (ill.). The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler: A Catalogue Raisonné, ed. Harriet K. Stratis and Martha Tedeschi (Chicago and New York, 1998), I:p. 506, no. vii (ill.). Harriet K. Stratis, "Whistler's Printers and Their Transfer Papers: A Technical Study," The Whistler Review: Studies on James McNeill Whistler and Nineteenth-Century Art 2, ed. Martha Tedeschi and Nigel Thorp (Glasgow, 2003), p. 22 (ill., fig.7). Meg Hausberg and Victoria Sancho Lobis. Whistler and Roussel: Linked Visions. Department of Publishing of The Art Institute of Chicago, 2015 (https://publications.artic.edu/whistler/reader/linkedvisions ; Accessed August 24, 2015), Essay para. 11, fig. 13 (ill.), Checklist para. 4, cat. 3.4 (ill).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler / American, 1834-1903
- Date
- 1893
- Medium
- Lithographic crayon, with traces of scraping and stumping, on fine-grained transfer paper laid down on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 16.1 × 24.5 cm (6 3/8 × 9 11/16 in.); Secondary support: 23.9 × 32.3 cm (9 7/16 × 12 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Walter S. Brewster
- Accession no.
- 1933.213
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