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Nude woman reclining

Impression: Yale University Art Gallery
Yale University Art Gallery
(1960.46.68)
Number: 92
Date: 1861; 1873/1874
Medium: drypoint
Size: 138 x 211 mm
Signed: 'Whistler.' at lower left and, upside down, upper left.
Inscribed: '1861.' at lower left and, upside down, at upper left
Set/Publication: 
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 1
Catalogues: K.-; M.-; T.-; W.-
Impressions taken from this plate  (1)

KEYWORD

couch, fan, figure, interior, model, nude reclining, woman reclining.

TITLE

Whistler's original title is not known, and a descriptive title has been chosen:
Nude woman reclining (2009, Whistler Etching Project).

DESCRIPTION

A nude young woman with wavy shoulder length hair, reclining on a sofa; her head, tilted well back on the pillow, is on the left. The figure is drawn over another faint figure, seen upside down on the plate.

SITTER

Not identified. It is just possible that the model for the earlier study was Joanna Hiffernan (b. ca 1843).