The Sisters

1894

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Transfer lithograph with scraping; second state of two (Chicago); printed in black ink on cream laid paper
Dimensions: Image: 5 7/8 × 9 5/16 in. (15 × 23.6 cm) Sheet: 8 3/8 x 11 5/8in. (21.3 x 29.5cm)
Collection no.: 1984.1119.16
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

James Abbott McNeill Whistler. The Sisters. Image credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Proportional resize and JPEG compression; full source frame retained.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

The Sisters — James Abbott McNeill Whistler. 1894.

Medium: Transfer lithograph with scraping; second state of two (Chicago); printed in black ink on cream laid paper. Dimensions: Image: 5 7/8 × 9 5/16 in. (15 × 23.6 cm) Sheet: 8 3/8 x 11 5/8in. (21.3 x 29.5cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of Paul F. Walter, 1984.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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