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Technique
She left a description of Whistler's portrait technique: 'With me he began at once by drawing in the bust with a brush and sienna', drawing only the outline at the first sitting, and at the second making 'flat tones in sienna, in many shades'; however, she described the second portrait as 'unfinished'. 1
Conservation History
Unknown.
Frame
Unknown.
Notes:
1: Cerutti, Teresa, An Intimate View of James McNeill Whistler (t. s., n.d.), p. 18; mss pp. 10-12, copy in GUL.
Last updated: 3rd April 2020 by Margaret
