Cleveland Museum of Art
Cameo, No. 1 (Mother and Child)
James McNeill WhistlerLinkedCulture matchlcp-0aefef365bf7
- Date
- c. 1890–93
- Medium
- etching
- Culture
- America
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 105074
What the image shows
A sketch of a woman in a flowing dress bending over.
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From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Among a group of etchings Whistler made from a nude or partly draped model around 1890 was a pair entitled Cameo No. 1 and Cameo No. 2, showing a young mother playing with her child. Here, the mother leans over the child in an enclosed, protective gesture, perhaps whispering a lullaby. Whistler's treatment of the figure's robe, a semi-classical design based on Roman dress, captured the translucent qualities of the drapery which partly reveals and partly conceals the form beneath. Of this group, the artist's favorite etching was Cameo No. 1, and in 1893 he chose it to be exhibited among a selection of his prints at the Chicago World's Fair. American collectors, however, found Cameo No. 1 too risqué, and the artist was told it was unsalable because of "the thinness of the drapery."
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- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph King
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Whistler's Printmaking OeuvreThese prints represent the diverse printmaking techniques and subjects of James McNeill Whistler, the influential American expatriate artist who worked in etching, drypoint, and lithography across American and European l
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