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Study of a female nude, stooping in profile to right Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (draughtsman)
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Title/s	Study of a female nude, stooping in profile to right
Maker/s	Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (draughtsman) [ULAN info: American artist, 1834-1903]
Category	drawing
Name	drawing
School/Style	American
Technique Description	black, white and coloured chalks on brown paper
Dimensions	height: 305 mm width: 229 mm
Date	1870 to 1873
Provenance	bequeathed: Knowles, Guy John Fenton 1959 (Filtered for: Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
Inscriptions/Marks	signature Position: lower left-hand corner Method: Content: Description: butterfly monogram
Documentation	MacDonald, Margaret F. (1995) James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven & London [comments: no. 368 (as 'Study of a Nude')]
Notes	MacDonald dates this drawing 1870-1873, and identifies it as a study for the two left hand figures in Whistler's painting, 'The Three Girls' (YMSM88), one of the two paintings commissioned by F.R. Leyland in 1867. Other studies are catalogued by MacDonald (nos. 359-373). She relates this drawing to another in the Hunterian Art Gallery (no. 369), both of which she identifies as studies for the etching, 'Tillie, a model' (K.117 c. 1873).
Material/s	black chalk (medium) white chalk (medium) coloured chalk (medium) paper (support)
Accession Number	PD.65-1959 (Paintings, Drawings and Prints) (Reference Number: 14357; Input Date: 2000-10-17 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)
Related Object	PD.68-1959 - Study of a seated female nude, seen from behind

Study of a female nude, stooping in profile to right

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (draughtsman)