Study / James McNeill Whistler

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Record Details

Accession Number

1954/1.424

Title

Study

Artist

James McNeill Whistler

Artist Nationality

American

Artist Life Dates

1834-1903

Medium and Support

lithograph, with scraping on a prepared half-tint ground, printed in brown ink o

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

Secondary Keywords

figures

people and occupations

study

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Technical Details

Collection

University of Michigan Museum of Art

Image Size

981 x 1317

File Size

104 KB

Record

1954/1.424

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