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).