Sleeping Woman
c. 1863
Medium
chalk and charcoal on cream wove paper mounted on paperboard
Dimensions
sheet (irregular bottom edge): 25 × 17.6 cm (9 13/16 × 6 15/16 in.) mount: 35.9 × 27.8 cm (14 1/8 × 10 15/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1948.11.306
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...