UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

model, nude, woman.

Variations on the title are as follows:


'Stooping Figure' (1890/1891, Whistler). 2
'Model Stooping' (1898, Wunderlich's). 3
'The Model Stooping' (1900, Caxton Club). 4
'Nude figure stooping' (1900, Wunderlich's). 5
'Model Stooping' (1902, Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932)). 6
'Nude Model Stooping' (2010, Whistler Etching Project).


'Nude Model Stooping' is a title combining elements of earlier titles by Whistler and other cataloguers, and distinguished this subject from other studies of models and figures.

A nude young woman, turning to the left, stoops down low, as if picking up flowers with both hands. There is shading in the background, indicating a curtain.

Not identified.

The theme of a nude or semi-nude figure tending flowers reappears in Whistler's work at intervals from the 1860s on. The figure is reminiscent of the central figure in The White Symphony: Three Girls [y087] and related pastel studies such as The Lily [m0364], dating from the late 1860s and 1870s. The etching Tillie: A Model [113], dating from the early 1870s, is related to the left hand figure in the same oil. The White Symphony: Three Girls was exhibited at the RBA in the winter of 1887-1988 (cat. no. 352), and this may have been when Whistler made further studies such as The Three Girls [m1163]. Later developments of the pose are seen in a chalk drawing, A crouching nude tending a flowering plant [m1389] and watercolour, Blue and Gold - The Rose Azalea [m1392].