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Japanese Woman Painting a Fan (recto), c. 1872. black chalk and pastel.
black chalk and pastel · Sheet: 27.9 x 17.6 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- Japanese Woman Painting a Fan (recto)
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903)
- Date
- c. 1872
- Medium
- black chalk and pastel
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 27.9 x 17.6 cm (11 x 6 15/16 in.); Secondary Support: 38.5 x 28.9 cm (15 3/16 x 11 3/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Henry A. Everett for the Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland 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.