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    Reclining Draped Figure
    James McNeill Whistler. Reclining Draped Figure, 1893. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00002230

    Reclining Draped Figure

    by James McNeill Whistler

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    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).

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    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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