Art Institute of Chicago

The Draped Figure, Seated

James McNeill Whistler

Date

1893

Medium

Transfer lithograph in grayish black on tan Japanese paper

Culture

United States

Department

Prints and Drawings

Institution

Art Institute of Chicago

Italian-born Carmen Rossi began posing for Whistler in Paris in 1892. Reputedly the subject of this transfer lithograph, Rossi modeled for other Whistler prints, drawings, and paintings and, from 1898 to 1901, ran Académie Carmen, an art school the artist established for her. During the 1890s Rossi also posed for students at the Académie Julian and for the American artist Alice Pike Barney, who studied at the Académie Carmen.

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