Finette
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Actors, singers, chorus girls, and dancers were popular subjects for artists of the period. Josephine Durwend, a cancan dancer who performed in London and Paris from the 1850s to the 1870s, was known as Finette. Despite her immodest costumes in contemporary photographs and her reputation for vulgar language and drunkenness, Whistler chose to depict her tastefully dressed and standing in a dignified pose.
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Details
- Maker
- James McNeill Whistler, American, 1834-1903
- Date
- 1859
- Medium
- Etching and drypoint in black on ivory Japanese paper
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 29 × 20.1 cm (11 7/16 × 7 15/16 in.); Sheet: 38.6 × 26.4 cm (15 1/4 × 10 7/16 in.)
- Place of origin
- United States
- Held by
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago · Not on view
- Credit line
- Bryan Lathrop Collection
Image: Art Institute of Chicago, CC0
