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Woman seated, back view

Maker

Copy after
(artist)
1834-1903

Title

Woman seated, back view

Date of Production

1880 - 1890

Medium

black and white chalk on thick brown wove paper, framed with double black chalk lines

Dimensions

Height: 27.5 cm
Width: 19.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1982.LB.4

Mode of Acquisition

Lillian Browse, gift, 1982

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords


Provenance

Lillian Browse Gift 1982

Exhibition History

Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Related Drawings from the
Courtauld Collections
, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 11/05/1988-04/09/1988

A Private Collection of late 19th and 20th century Paintings and
Sculpture
, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 12/02/1983-10/04/1983

Literature

MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler drawings, pastels and watercolours, a catalogue raisonné, New Haven and London 1995
p. 254
ill. on p. 254
rejected

Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Related Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1988
cat. no. 39

A Private Collection of late 19th and 20th century Paintings and Sculpture, Courtauld Institute Gallery, London, 1983
cat. no. 73
ill.

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: none (although William Bradford interpreted the marks at lower left as the artist's butterfly "signature"; Margaret MacDonald in her catalogue raisonne said this is a "fake" butterfly).

Label: The Arts Council of Great Britain exhibition label: "Exhibition J. McN. Whistler/Catalogue No. 122/(in pencil) 5 P pf 12/ Artist Whistler/Title of Picture Back view of Girl Seated/Name of Owner Private Collection, London"

Collector's mark: none.

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