The Sisters / James McNeill Whistler
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2011/1.75
- Title
- The Sisters
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1834-1903
- Medium and Support
- transfer lithograph, with scraping on antique cream laid paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1894-1895
- Object Creation Place
- North America
- United States
- Creation Place 1
- North America
- Creation Place 2
- United States
- Inscription
- Signed with butterfly in pencil, l.l.
- Signed with butterfly on the stone, left (above table)
- Watermark: AC in shield
- Collector's mark (Lugt 406), on verso
- Dimensions
- 21.27 cm x 29.21 cm (8 3/8 in. x 11 1/2 in.)
- Primary Object Classification
- Primary Object Type
- portrait
- Physical Description
- Two women dressed in dark clothing sit in an interior setting. The nearer woman leans far back in an armchair, head resting on her left hand, legs crossed. The other woman is sitting more upright at the center of the composition. The women look at one another in an attitude of quiet conversation. To the left of the composition is a round table.
- Subject Matter
- Executed a few months before the Whistlers received the diagnosis of Beatrix's cancer, this work was probaby drawn in the Whistler's home in Paris at 110, rue du Bac. Beatrix, reclining in the armchair exhibits the fatigue that characterized her illness.
- Thomas R. Way printed an edition of about 50 impressions; about half of those were signed by the artist. Rosalind Birnie Philip had the stone erased and there were no posthumous impressions taken.
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1360 x 954
- File Size
- 192 KB
- Record
- 2011/1.75
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2011-sl-1.75/2011_1_75.jpg
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"The Sisters; James McNeill Whistler." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2011-sl-1.75/2011_1_75.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
