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Portrait of a Young Woman [Miss Seton]

James McNeill Whistler

1897 (only printed posthumously 1903)

Portrait of a Young Woman [Miss Seton] by James McNeill Whistler

Medium

Transfer lithograph in black ink on cream laid paper

Dimensions

Image: 19.9 × 13.4 cm (7 7/8 × 5 5/16 in.); Sheet: 24.9 × 18.7 cm (9 13/16 × 7 3/8 in.)

Classification

print

Department

Prints and Drawings

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

139598

About the Artist

James McNeill Whistler · 18341903

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...

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