The Dancing Girl

1889

James McNeill Whistler

Associated Names
James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

Thomas Robert Way

Printer, British, 1861/1862 - 1913

The image shows a full-body sketch of a person standing. The figure is slightly angled to the right, with one arm extended outward and the other resting along their side. The person's facial features are not clearly defined, and they have wavy hair that falls below their ears. They are draped in a flowing garment that extends dramatically to one side. The individual is not wearing any jewelry or holding any objects. The sketch is set against a plain background.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black with chine collé on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund)

  • Dimensions

    image: 18.2 × 14.8 cm (7 3/16 × 5 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 34.29 × 26.67 cm (13 1/2 × 10 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.600

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Stratis & Tedeschi 1998, no. 29

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Charles Lang Freer, Detroit, Michigan; Frederick S. Church, New York, 1890; (Knoedler & Co., New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1949; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1977

  • American Lithographs from the Corcoran's Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 14

1982

  • American Impressionist Prints, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, no. 28

1983

  • Sargent's Contemporaries, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983, no. 31

1990

  • Haden, Whistler, Pennell: Three Master Printmakers in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1990, no. 52

Bibliography

1896

  • Way, Thomas Robert. Mr. Whistler's Lithographs: The Catalogue. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1896; New York: H. Wunderlich & Co., 1905, no. 30.

1998

  • Stratis, Harriet K., and Martha Tedeschi, eds. The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, vol. 1. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998, pp. 136-138, no. 29.

Inscriptions

center left on stone: [the artist's butterfly]; lower left in graphite by unknown hand: To my friend Mr. Frederick S. Church- / C.L. Freer. / Detroit, August 7th 1890 -; lower left in graphite by unknown hand: A94508 / W.30. MK 32821

Wikidata ID

Q77012975

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