Fumette, Standing
- 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.)
- Genre
- drypoint
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
japanese paperinkdrypointprintprints and drawingpaperpaper (fiber product)
About
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.
