Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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M.0355.
Draped Figure, Standing

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1868/1872
Collection: Colby College Museum of Art
Accession Number: 2013.500
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 11 x 7 1/4" (279 x 184 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Draped Figure, Standing

Technique

Draped Figure, Standing, Colby College Museum of Art
Draped Figure, Standing, Colby College Museum of Art

The figure was delicately drawn with black and illuminated with white chalk. The model's face was left undefined.

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