Study / James McNeill Whistler
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- Accession Number
- 1954/1.424
- Title
- Study
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1834-1903
- Object Creation Date
- 1879
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
- Inscription
- On the stone, to r. of figure: Butterfly monogram Collector's mark: T.R.W. (in rectangle) Thomas Robert Way. Lugt 2456
- Dimensions
- 33.7 cm x 25.6 cm (13 1/4 in. x 10 1/16 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Physical Description
- A standing, lightly draped female figure rests her left hand on a railing and her right hand on a lower support to the left. Her figure is in a contrapposto stance facing the viewer while her face is seen in profile, looking to the right.
- Subject Matter
- Executed shortly after his early lithotints of the Thames, this lithograph, drawn on stone, did not incorporate tusche as did many of the views of the river. Here, the standing figure in diaphanous neo-Grecian drapery was related to works that he explored first in the 1860s and to which he would return in the 1890s, although by then Whistler's reference to antique sources had become more generalized and no longer Greek in inspiration.
- Primary Keywords
- standing
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 981 x 1317
- File Size
- 104 KB
- Record
- 1954/1.424
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1954-sl-1.424/1954_1.424.jpg
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"Study; James McNeill Whistler." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1954-sl-1.424/1954_1.424.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 23, 2024.