Japanese Woman Painting a Fan (recto)
James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903) · c. 1872 · black chalk and pastel
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About this picture
Japanese Woman Painting a Fan (recto) is a CC0 drawing by James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903), dated c. 1872. Black chalk and pastel. The file comes from Cleveland Museum of Art.
“Japanese Woman Painting a Fan (recto)” (c. 1872) is meant to be read as a harmony of tone. Whistler often called such pictures arrangements or nocturnes rather than views of a place.
About the artist
James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) was an American artist working in London and Paris. He titled many pictures as arrangements or nocturnes, asking that they be seen as harmonies of tone, not only as portraits of a place.
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