Nude Posing |  Freer Gallery of Art (1893.78) | |
| Number: | 125 | |
| Date: | 1874/1875 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 305 x 177 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 18 | |
| Catalogues: | K.127; M.124 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (18) | ||
KEYWORD
model, nude standing, woman standing.
TITLE
Whistler's original title is not known; later titles are as follows:
'Nude Girl Posing' (1909, Howard Mansfield (1849-1938)). 1
'Nude Figure Posing' (1910, Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932)). 2
'Nude Posing' (2010, Whistler Etchings Project).
'Nude Posing', the preferred title, is a simple variation on earlier titles. It is appropriate because the figure is a woman, not a girl.
'Nude Girl Posing' (1909, Howard Mansfield (1849-1938)). 1
'Nude Figure Posing' (1910, Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932)). 2
'Nude Posing' (2010, Whistler Etchings Project).
'Nude Posing', the preferred title, is a simple variation on earlier titles. It is appropriate because the figure is a woman, not a girl.
DESCRIPTION
A full-length figure of a nude woman, who stands facing front, but with the body turned toward the right. Her right hand rests on her hip, and there is possibly the suggestion of thin drapery at right.
SITTER
The model has not been identified. The same model may appear in similar studies such as Nude Woman Standing, hand on hip 114.