The Draped Figure, Seated
Medium
Transfer lithograph in grayish black on tan Japanese paper
Dimensions
Image: 18.6 × 16.2 cm (7 3/8 × 6 7/16 in.); Sheet: 29.2 × 23.5 cm (11 1/2 × 9 5/16 in.)
Classification
transfer lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
139550
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Italian-born Carmen Rossi began posing for Whistler in Paris in 1892. Reputedly the subject of this transfer lithograph, Rossi modeled for other Whistler prints, drawings, and paintings and, from 1898 to 1901, ran Académie Carmen, an art school the artist established for her. During the 1890s Rossi also posed for students at the Académie Julian and for the American artist Alice Pike Barney, who studied at the Académie Carmen.
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...