Nude Standing with Legs Crossed, c. 1878

Not on View

Medium

chalk on brown wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 28.6 × 18.2 cm (11 1/4 × 7 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 1995, no. 685

Accession Number

1943.3.8806

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right butterfly signature; center verso in ink: A.E. Gallatin; center verso in graphite (circled): 1397; lower left verso in graphite: A. 3170; lower center in graphite (across): 1-; lower right in graphite: (had sold for 70 gb/ bsc rsc(?); lower right in graphite (upside down): p314

Marks and Labels

right center in black chalk: Whistler signature; upper right verso in black ink: LRJ stamp; lower left verso in black ink: NGA 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

1991: Wadley, Nicholas. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawing. London, 1991: fig. 20, p. 23.

1995: MacDonald, Margaret F. James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1995, no. 685.