The Dancing Girl

1889

James McNeill Whistler

Associated Names
James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

The image shows the full body of a person standing with a slight lean. The facial features are sketchily drawn, with an abstract depiction of the face. The person's hair is suggested with light strokes. They are draped in a flowing, translucent garment. One hand is visible and articulated with light strokes. The background is plain and undetailed.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black with chine collé on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of R. Horace Gallatin

  • Dimensions

    image: 18.2 × 14.8 cm (7 3/16 × 5 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 21.8 × 16.2 cm (8 9/16 × 6 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1949.1.56

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Stratis & Tedeschi 1998, no. 29

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

possibly owned by William Edward Glyn [1859-1939], New York and Newport [1]. purchased at an unidentified Newport auction in 1941 by R. Horace Gallatin [1871 - 1948], New York; gift to NGA, 1949.
[1] Horace Gallatin's acquisition log notes that the print was previously owned by a Mr. Glyn and purchased at a Newport auction in August 1941.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1977

  • Paper in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 131.

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.

Wikidata ID

Q65076778

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