Japanese Woman Painting a Fan (recto); Standing Woman Holding Up Her Dress (verso)
c. 1872
- Medium
- black chalk and pastel
- Dimensions
- 27.9 × 17.6 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-210500
After being expelled from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Whistler made his way to Europe, where he pursued the life of the artist-bohemian, first in Paris, and then in London. Whistler was a pioneer in appreciating the effects of Japanese prints, and his art is characterized by an Asian subtlety and delicacy. Whistler signed his work with a monogram representing a butterfly, which appears just below the hand of the model in this drawing.
Provenance
Everett for the Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection, 1933.222
Registry history
- c. 1872 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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