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Arrangement in Black: Girl Reading, ca. 1880–90. Oil on wood.
Oil on wood · 12 x 9 in. (22.9 x 30.5 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- Arrangement in Black: Girl Reading
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London)
- Date
- ca. 1880–90
- Medium
- Oil on wood
- Dimensions
- 12 x 9 in. (22.9 x 30.5 cm)
- Credit line
- Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967), 1967
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1834–1903
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.