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Standing Woman Holding Up Her Dress (verso)

c. 1872
(American, 1834–1903)
America, 19th century
black chalk or crayon
Support: Brown wove paper
Watermarks:
Sheet: 27.9 x 17.6 cm (11 x 6 15/16 in.); Secondary Support: 38.5 x 28.9 cm (15 3/16 x 11 3/8 in.)
Gift of Mrs. Henry A. Everett for the Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection 1933.222.b
Location: not on view
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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.
Standing Woman Holding Up Her Dress (verso)

Standing Woman Holding Up Her Dress (verso)

c. 1872

James McNeill Whistler

(American, 1834–1903)
America, 19th century

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