Portrait Study: Mrs. Philip, No. 3 (recto) Portrait Study: Geneviève Mallarmé (verso)
Medium
Transfer lithograph in black on ivory plate paper
Dimensions
147 × 137 mm (image); 362 × 252 mm (sheet) (recto) 208 × 125 mm (image); 362 × 252 mm (sheet) (verso)
Classification
transfer lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
50724
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...