Draped Figure, Reclining
Medium
Transfer lithograph from five stones, in black (keystone), blue-green, olive green, yellow-green, yellow, purple-brown, pale ochre, orange-red, and rose on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 18 × 25.8 cm (7 1/8 × 10 3/16 in.); With four registration marks and color notations: 21.8 × 28.5 cm (8 5/8 × 11 1/4 in.); Sheet: 27.8 × 36.7 cm (11 × 14 1/2 in.)
Classification
transfer lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
19803
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
As the current exhibition Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity demonstrates, women in the late 19th century were regularly defined by their attire. Clothing, makeup, and accessories frequently reflected not only a woman’s social status but also her character and morality. Scholar Justine De Young has observed of the period, “Dressing fashionably and in good taste thus became one of the central concerns of a bourgeois woman’s daily life, as not merely her appearance but also her reputation was a...
About the Artist
James McNeill Whistler · 1834–1903
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was an American-born painter and printmaker who became a leading figure in the Aesthetic Movement and pioneer of Tonalism and Japonisme. He revolutionized art by championing "art for art's sake" and treating paintings as visual equivalents of musical compositions, titling works as "arrangements," "harmonies," and "nocturnes" to emphasize formal qualities o...