The Draped Figure, Seated

1893

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Transfer lithograph with stumping; only state (Chicago); printed in black ink on heavyweight tan laid Japanese vellum
Dimensions: Image: 7 5/16 × 6 3/8 in. (18.6 × 16.2 cm) Sheet: 11 3/8 × 9 3/16 in. (28.9 × 23.3 cm)
Collection no.: 1985.1161.2
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

James Abbott McNeill Whistler. The Draped Figure, Seated. 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 Draped Figure, Seated — James Abbott McNeill Whistler. 1893.

Medium: Transfer lithograph with stumping; only state (Chicago); printed in black ink on heavyweight tan laid Japanese vellum. Dimensions: Image: 7 5/16 × 6 3/8 in. (18.6 × 16.2 cm) Sheet: 11 3/8 × 9 3/16 in. (28.9 × 23.3 cm).

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, 1985.

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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