Titles

Whistler's title is unknown, and only one title has been suggested, which is inaccurate:

• 'Portrait of Annie Haden' (1900/1950). 1

'Portrait of a girl' is the preferred title.

Description

Portrait of a girl, press-cutting, n.d., Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

A head and shoulders portrait of a young girl with long dark hair, wearing a big round hat.

Sitter

Not identified. It is not, as was suggested in a press-cutting cited above, Annie Harriet Haden (1848-1937).