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James McNeill Whistler

Sleeping Woman, c. 1863

Not on View

Medium

chalk and charcoal on cream wove paper mounted on paperboard

Dimensions

sheet (irregular bottom edge): 25 × 17.6 cm (9 13/16 × 6 15/16 in.)
mount: 35.9 × 27.8 cm (14 1/8 × 10 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 1995, no. 310

Accession Number

1948.11.306

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

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Inscription

lower right in black chalk: Whistler

Provenance

James Anderson Rose [1819-1890], London; (sale, London, Christie's, 5 May 1891, lot 112); (purchased by Dowdeswell Gallery, London); Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge [c.1845-1924], Glasgow; Harris Whittemore [1864-1927], Naugatuck, CT; (his sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, 19-20 May 1948, lot 153); (Rosenbach Company, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1948; gift to NGA, 1948.

Associated Names

MacGeorge, Bernard Buchanan
Rose, James Anderson
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Whittemore, Harris

Exhibition History

1905: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late James McNeill Whistler, New Gallery, London, 1905, no. 183.

1950: Masterpieces of Drawing: Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1950-1951, no. 100, repro.

1953: Whistler's Prints after Fifty Years, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1953.

1954: American Drawings, organized by The United States Information Agency with a tour to Amerika Haus, Munich, Germany; Musee des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France; and London Tea Center, London, England, 1954.

1959: Courbet's Contemporaries in Prints and Drawings, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1959-1960.

1961: Nineteenth Century Master Drawings, The Newark Museum, NJ, 1961, no. 31, repro.

1962: Drawings from the National Gallery of Art Collections, NGA, 1962-1963.

1966: Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1966.

1969: The Prints of James McNeill Whistler, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Artmobile, 1969-1970.

1986: Graphic Survey of American Art on Paper, NGA, 1986-1987.

1994: James McNeill Whistler, Tate Gallery, London; Musée d'Orsay, Paris; NGA, 1994-1995, no. 18.

1998: Songs on Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998, no. 10, repro.

2022: The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler, Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2022, no. 20.

Bibliography

1982: Fine, Ruth E. Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1982, p. 98, fig. 27-28b.

1991: Wadley, Nicholas. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawing. London, 1991: no. 83a.

1994: James McNeill Whistler. Exh. cat. Tate Gallery, London; Musée d'Orsay, Paris; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994-1995: no. 18.

1995: MacDonald, Margaret F. James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1995, no. 310.