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Seated woman, smoking by James McNeill Whistler — VisualArtsDB

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Seated woman, smoking

Seated woman, smoking

Seated woman, smoking

James McNeill Whistler

1850

Medium: Pencil on off-white wove paper
Genre: Drawings
Museum: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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Recto: A young woman sitting on a sofa, smoking a cigarette. Verso: head.

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