Model Stooping |  Art Institute of Chicago (1917.505) | |
| Number: | 362 | |
| Date: | 1887/1888 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 135 x 97 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 1 | |
| Catalogues: | K.342; M.340 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (1) | ||
KEYWORD
model, nude, woman.
TITLE
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.
'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.
2: List, [1890/1891] GUW #13236.
3: New York 1898 (cat. no. 284).
4: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. E277).
5: Wunderlich's to Whistler, 6 April 1900, GUW #07322.
6: Kennedy 1902[more] (cat. no. 303).
DESCRIPTION
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.
SITTER
Not identified.
DISCUSSION
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.