Art Institute of Chicago

The Toilet

James McNeill Whistler

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

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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