Fumette, Standing
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A young woman, known only by the name Eloise or Héloise and called Fumette, lived with Whistler for a time during his bohemian student days in Paris and posed for several of his etchings. A hatmaker or seamstress, rather than a professional model, she was among the Parisian working-class women who lived outside the norms of polite society and sometimes posed for youthful artists.
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Details
- Maker
- James McNeill Whistler, American, 1834-1903
- Date
- 1859
- Medium
- Drypoint with plate tone in warm black on cream Japanese paper
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 34.7 × 22.1 cm (13 11/16 × 8 3/4 in.); Sheet: 38.3 × 24.1 cm (15 1/8 × 9 1/2 in.)
- Place of origin
- United States
- Held by
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago · Not on view
- Credit line
- Bequest of Arthur MacDougall Wood, through the generosity of Pauline Wood Egan and Arthur M. Wood, Jr.
Image: Art Institute of Chicago, CC0
