The image depicts a young girl seated with her full upper body visible and slightly more than half of her lower body, down to the knees. Her head is tilted downwards, and her hands are folded in her lap. The girl's facial features are delicately rendered with soft lines portraying her eyes, nose, and mouth. Her mid-length, slightly wavy hair falls around her shoulders. She is wearing a long garment, likely a dress, with ample fabric creating folds and a voluminous shape around her legs. The chair she sits on is lightly outlined in the background, which is plain and unadorned with subtle shading suggesting the ground beneath the chair. Crosshatching details add depth and dimension to the scene.
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The image depicts a young girl seated with her full upper body visible and slightly more than half of her lower body, down to the knees. Her head is tilted downwards, and her hands are folded in her lap. The girl's facial features are delicately rendered with soft lines portraying her eyes, nose, and mouth. Her mid-length, slightly wavy hair falls around her shoulders. She is wearing a long garment, likely a dress, with ample fabric creating folds and a voluminous shape around her legs. The chair she sits on is lightly outlined in the background, which is plain and unadorned with subtle shading suggesting the ground beneath the chair. Crosshatching details add depth and dimension to the scene.

National Gallery of Art · Print

Annie, Seated

James McNeill Whistler

Date
1858/1859
Medium
etching and drypoint in black on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 13.18 × 9.68 cm (5 3/16 × 3 13/16 in.) sheet: 20.32 × 14.29 cm (8 × 5 5/8 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
2015.19.413
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Julius Garfinckel, 1938)
Time span
1851 to 1875
Department
CG-W

Subjects and terms

  • girl
  • portrait
  • American
  • etching
  • drypoint
  • Girl
  • Portrait
Provenance

(Frederick Keppel & Co., New York); Julius Garfinckel, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1938; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Inscription

lower left in plate: Whistler; lower center in plate: Annie; lower center edge in graphite by unknown hand: 8626; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: A93056; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: HY

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