Technique

The canvas is very thin, and primed with grey. The paint is roughly scrubbed on at the bottom of the canvas, and the curiously attenuated hands have been partially scraped out. The fine spiky brushwork around the face looks lively but a bit uncertain, and numerous horizontal strokes give her a rather strange mouth. Her beautiful auburn hair is set off by the dark green background, a typical colour scheme for Whistler in the late 1890s.

Conservation History

Unknown.

Frame

84.5 x 64.5 x 8.8 cm.