Art, literature & history
Fumette, Standing
1859
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- 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.)
- Collection no.
- 2007.129
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Fumette, Standing. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Fumette, Standing — James Abbott McNeill Whistler. 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.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
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.
Description: © Art Institute of Chicago, original record, CC BY 4.0. HTML formatting removed; wording retained. Other artwork metadata: CC0.
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.