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The image is an etching of a young girl sitting on a chair. She is seen from the waist up, in a relaxed posture with her hands in her lap. The girl's facial features are depicted with minimal detail, and she has long, wavy hair. She wears a long-sleeved dress. The background is simple, showing faint outlines of the chair and ground. The artist's signature and the name “Annie” are at the bottom of the etching.
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The image is an etching of a young girl sitting on a chair. She is seen from the waist up, in a relaxed posture with her hands in her lap. The girl's facial features are depicted with minimal detail, and she has long, wavy hair. She wears a long-sleeved dress. The background is simple, showing faint outlines of the chair and ground. The artist's signature and the name “Annie” are at the bottom of the etching.

National Gallery of Art · Print

Annie, Seated

James McNeill Whistler

Date
1858/1859
Medium
etching and drypoint in black on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 13.02 × 9.53 cm (5 1/8 × 3 3/4 in.) sheet: 17.46 × 13.81 cm (6 7/8 × 5 7/16 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
2015.19.1493
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow, 1968)
Time span
1851 to 1875
Department
CG-W
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • girl
  • portrait
  • American
  • etching
  • drypoint
  • Girl
  • Female portrait
  • Seated
Provenance

Frank B. Bristow, Falls Church, Virginia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1968; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Inscription

lower left in plate: Whistler-; lower center in plate: "Annie"; lower right edge in graphite by unknown hand: 636; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: K 18. Annie Seated -; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 12.00

Marks

stamped lower center verso in black ink: F.B.B. [circled]

Watermarks

[partial shield]

NGA object ID 183440. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.