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Description: Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl

TitleSymphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl

Creator nameWhistler, James McNeill

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1861–1863, 1872

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationNational Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.12198.html

Accession number1943.6.2

SubjectsWomen--PortraitsClothing and dress--France--History--19th centuryPortrait painting, American--19th centuryAesthetic movement (Art)

StatusModel is Joanna Hiffernan

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Chapter 6: James McNeill Whistler

Elizabeth Prettejohn

Art for Art’s Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Painting

For his contemporaries as for recent scholars, the primary fact about Whistler is his singularity. It may be said that he and his critics, in a strange collusion born of antipathy and adulation in equal measure, have made of Whistler himself an object of aesthetic judgement...

Author

Elizabeth Prettejohn

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.163-199

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Chapter subject tags:Aesthetic movement (Art)Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903Art for art's sake (Movement)Painting, American--19th centuryRuskin, John, 1819-1900Painting, British--19th century

Édouard Manet: Young Lady in 1866

Gary Tinterow

Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity

Édouard Manet’s Young Lady in 1866 (cat. 9) is one of the most striking examples of the artist’s ability to astonish and...

Author

Gary Tinterow

PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

Related print edition pages: pp.26-32

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00356.2

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Chapter subject tags:Clothing and dress--France--History--19th centuryImpressionism (Art)--FranceManet, Édouard, 1832-1883Women--PortraitsTissot, James, 1836-1902

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