The Little Nude Model, Reading

1889/1890

James McNeill Whistler

Associated Names
James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

This print shows a nude woman sitting on a flat surface and facing the left, with her legs crossed. Her head is bent downward to look at something she holds in her hands, which may be a book or a stack of papers. She has pale skin and dark, curly hair tucked into a light bandana or cloth. Behind her on the flat surface are several indistinct objects, and there are some other square shapes on the left side of the print. The print is created with faint gray lines on off-white paper and has a sketchy quality similar to a pencil drawing.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 16.7 × 17.9 cm (6 9/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 31.8 × 20 cm (12 1/2 × 7 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.9106

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Stratis & Tedeschi 1998, no. 33

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Bibliography

1896

  • Way, Thomas Robert. Mr. Whistler's Lithographs: The Catalogue. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1896; New York: H. Wunderlich & Co., 1905, no. 29.

1998

  • Stratis, Harriet K., and Martha Tedeschi, eds. The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, vol. 1. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998, pp. 143-145, no. 33.

Wikidata ID

Q65022222

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