James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Study for "Arrangement in Black, No. 2: Portrait of Mrs. Louis Huth" (recto); Study for "Symphony in Flesh Color and Pink: Portrait of Mrs. Frances Leyland" (verso)

c. 1872

Dating

Approximate date range

Held at

Art Institute of Chicago

Medium

Pastel (recto), and black chalk with touches of pink and white pastel (verso), on brown wove paper

Dimensions

22.9 × 12.3 cm (9 1/16 × 4 7/8 in.)

Collection no.

1933.211

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Study for "Arrangement in Black, No. 2: Portrait of Mrs. Louis Huth" (recto); Study for "Symphony in Flesh Color and Pink: Portrait of Mrs. Frances Leyland" (verso), c. 1872. Inventory 1933.211. James Abbott McNeill Whistler; Art Institute of Chicago. Collection credit: Gift of Walter S. Brewster. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). https://www.artic.edu/artworks/113070. Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression. The photograph shows the complete pastel recto study of Mrs. Louis Huth in a black dress. The study of Mrs. Frances Leyland on the verso is not shown.