Art Institute of Chicago
The Toilet
James McNeill WhistlerLinkedCulture matchlcp-0d1a42681515
- Date
- 1878
- Medium
- Lithotint with scraping and incising, on a prepared half-tint ground, in black on cream wove paper
- Culture
- United States
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 139396
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
From the early 1870s until the late 1880s, Maud Franklin posed formally and informally for many of Whistler’s paintings, drawings, and prints. Initially his professional model, she soon became Whistler’s mistress, but their relationship ended with his marriage to Beatrice Godwin in 1888. Franklin also modeled for Mortimer Menpes and William Stott of Oldham.
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- Credit line
- Gift of the Crown Family in honor of James N. Wood
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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