Standing Female Figure, c. 1883

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink on the back of a printed calling card for Mrs. Henry B. Callander, 72, Cadogan Place

Dimensions

sheet: 9.3 × 6.1 cm (3 11/16 × 2 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 1995, no. 895

Accession Number

1943.3.8821

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

center right in brown ink: butterfly signature; on verso printed lettering crossed out; in pen & brown ink: Charley Le Coq de Lautreppe / from his friend Fred Lawless / 3 June 1883; lower right in graphite, 5970 (circled)

Marks and Labels

lower left verso in black ink: LRJ stamp; lower left verso in black ink: NGA/LRJ stamp

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.

Bibliography

1995: MacDonald, Margaret F. James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1995, no. 895.