Study: Maud Seated
<p>Whistler frequently depicted his mistresses (and later, his wife), including the early etching <a href="https://www.artic.edu/artworks/29491"><em>Finette </em></a> (nearby, 1938.1882) and this later lithotint. This subject’s relaxed pose—curled up in a chair, legs draped to the side—demonstrates an easy intimacy completely at odds with the portrait of Whistler’s straight-laced Victorian mother.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1878
- Dimensions
- Image: 26.5 × 18.3 cm (10 7/16 × 7 1/4 in.); Sheet: 29.3 × 22.4 cm (11 9/16 × 8 7/8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler
Artist
Painting
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral allusion in painting and was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake".
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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- James McNeill Whistler
- Year
- 1878
- Dimensions
- Image: 26.5 × 18.3 cm (10 7/16 × 7 1/4 in.); Sheet: 29.3 × 22.4 cm (11 9/16 × 8 7/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1878-130773
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified