Portrait Study
James Abbott McNeill Whistler · 1859 · Etching
Public domain
Marked Public Domain by the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
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About this picture
Portrait Study is a public-domain illustration by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, dated 1859. Etching. The file comes from Minneapolis Institute of Art.
“Portrait Study” (1859) 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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