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Standing Woman Holding Up Her Dress (verso)
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About this work
After being expelled from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Whistler made his way to Europe, where he pursued the life of the artist-bohemian, first in Paris, and then in London. Whistler was a pioneer in appreciating the effects of Japanese prints, and his art is characterized by an Asian subtlety and delicacy. Whistler signed his work with a monogram representing a butterfly, which appears just below the hand of the model in this drawing.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineStanding Woman Holding Up Her Dress (verso), c. 1872. James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903). Black chalk or crayon; sheet: 27.9 x 17.6 cm (11 x 6 15/16 in.); secondary support: 38.5 x 28.9 cm (15 3/16 x 11 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Henry A. Everett for the Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection, 1933.222.b
