![The Sleeper](https://media.clarkart.edu/Web_medium_images/1955.1751.jpg)
James McNeill Whistler
American, 1834–1903, active in England and France
The Sleeper
1863
Medium | black chalk on paper |
Dimensions | Overall: 9 5/8 x 6 7/8 in. (24.4 x 17.5 cm) |
Object Number | 1955.1751 |
Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
Status | Off View |
Image Caption
James McNeill Whistler, The Sleeper, 1863, black chalk on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1751
Select Bibliography
Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.
London: New Gallery. Whistler Memorial Exhibition.. Feb. 22-April 15, 1905.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-three: Drawings of the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1966.
Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago. James McNeill Whistler. Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 13-Feb. 15, 1968. Monson-Williams-Proctor, Utica, N.Y., Mar. 17-Apr. 28, 1968.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. A Selection of Drawings from the Collection of the Clark Art Institute. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: The Clark, 1974.
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts. Whistler in New England Collections. Nov. 22, 1977-Feb. 5, 1978.
London: Tate Gallery. James McNeill Whistler. Oct. 13, 1994-Jan. 8, 1995; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Feb. 6-April 30, 1995; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 28-Aug. 20, 1995. (Cat. by Richard Dorment, Margaret MacDonald, et al.).
Tadeschi, Martha. Songs on Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography. Exhibition catalogue. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1998.
Cary, Elizabeth Luther. The Works of James McNeill Whistler. New York: Moffat, Yard & Co.. 1907.
Elizabeth Robbins Pennell and Joseph Pennell.. The Life of James McNeill Whitler.. London: Heinmann; Philadelphia: Lippincott.. 1908..
Elizabeth Robbins Pennell and Joseph Pennell.. The Life of James McNeill Whitler.. Philadelphia.. 1919..
Nathan Goldstein.. The Art of Responsive Drawing.. Prentice-Hall.. 1973..
Goldstein, Nathan. The Art of Responsive Drawing. 3rd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1984.
Stebbins, Theodore E., Jr. American Master Drawings and Watercolors. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.
William A. Berry.. Drawing the Human Form.. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.. 1977..
Clint Brown and Cheryl McLean.. Drawing from Life.. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.. 1992..
McNamara, Carole and John Siewert. Whistler: Prosaic Views, Poetic Vision: Works on Paper from the University of Michigan Museum of Art.. New York: Thames and Hudson. 1994. (Exh.cat).
Clint Brown and Cheryl McLean.. Drawing from Life. 2nd ed.. Fort Worth (TX): Harcourt Brace.. 1997..
MacDonald, Margaret F. James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolors: A Catalogue Raisonné. London: Yale University Press, 1995.
Margaret F, MacDonald, Susan Grace Galassi, and Aileen Ribeiro, with Patricia de Montfort. Whistler, Women, & Fashion. The Frick Collection in association with Yale Univerity Press, New Haven & London. 2003:p. 83 Fig. 78.
Brooke, David S. Master Drawings: Robert Sterling Clark as a Collector. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1995.
Provenance
B. B. MacGeorge, Glasgow; Martin Birnbaum, New York (according to Kerrigan sale catalogue); Esther Slater Kerrigan (sale New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, January 8–10, 1942, no. 32 {as Woman Reclining}); Scott and Fowles, New York (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1942).