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Girl Lying Down |  Freer Gallery of Art (1893.82) | |
| Number: | 128 | |
| Date: | 1875/1876 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 132 x 209 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 18 | |
| Catalogues: | K.124; M.121 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (18) | ||
KEYWORD
girl reclining, portrait, couch, sleep.
TITLE
Whistler's original title is not known. There are only a few variations on the title, as follows:
Possibly 'The Siesta' (1877, Whistler). 1
'Girl Lying Down' (1909, Howard Mansfield (1849-1938)). 2
'A Child on a Couch, No. 1' (1910, Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932)). 3
It is not certain that 'The Siesta' is this etching or a similar subject (Sleeping Girl [127]) or another etching altogether. Mansfield's title 'Girl Lying Down' has been preferred, as simple and descriptive.
Possibly 'The Siesta' (1877, Whistler). 1
'Girl Lying Down' (1909, Howard Mansfield (1849-1938)). 2
'A Child on a Couch, No. 1' (1910, Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932)). 3
It is not certain that 'The Siesta' is this etching or a similar subject (Sleeping Girl [127]) or another etching altogether. Mansfield's title 'Girl Lying Down' has been preferred, as simple and descriptive.
1: Whistler to C. A. Howell, 12 October-5 November [1877], GUW #12735.
2: Mansfield 1909 (cat. no. 121).
3: Kennedy 1910 (cat. no. 124).
DESCRIPTION
A girl wearing a long dress lies on a sofa with her head on a cushion at left, and her figure extended to the right, her right arm hanging over the side of the sofa. There is a large curve, possibly the back of the sofa, in the background, at left. Near the right edge of the plate are sketches of two heads, one that of a girl wearing a round hat.
SITTER
Not identified. The same model appears in Sleeping Girl
[127].