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La Danseuse: A Study of the Nude

James McNeill Whistler and Henry Belfond

La Danseuse: A Study of the Nude

1885-1895

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La Danseuse: A Study of the Nude

1885-1895

Physical Qualities Crayon transfer lithograph, Sheet: 365 × 248 mm. (14 3/8 × 9 3/4 in.) Image: 160 × 125 mm. (6 5/16 × 4 15/16 in.)
Credit Line The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number 1996.48.8315
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art,
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
Way, Thomas R. The Lithographs by Whistler (New York: Kennedy & Co., 1914), p. 22, #148.

Levy, Mervyn. Whistler Lithographs: An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonné (London: Jupiter Books, 1975), #47.

Stratis, Harriet K. and Martha Tedeschi, eds. The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), p. 182, #49.

Inscribed: Signed in matrix: middle left "[butterfly]"

Markings: Collector's stamp: bottom left "M.I. / LUCAS / COLLECTION" (Lugt 1695c)

Artist

James McNeill Whistler

1833–1902

American, 1834-1903
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Printer

Henry Belfond

2000–2000

French
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