The Fur Tippet: Miss Lenoir
Medium
Etching and drypoint with foul biting in brownish black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 9.8 × 6.8 cm (3 7/8 × 2 11/16 in.); Sheet, with signature tab: 12.8 × 7.9 cm (5 1/16 × 3 1/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
73568
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Helen Lenoir is portrayed here in the year before her marriage to Richard D’Oyly Carte.
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...