1896
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Mother and Child, No. 2 is a 1896 by James McNeill Whistler, a Impressionism work, depicting Sitting, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
A woman in a loose white dress cradles a sleeping baby on her lap. Soft light spills over their faces, blurring edges like a quiet memory. Whistler painted this years after his famous *Arrangement in Grey and Black*—the one most call "Whistler’s Mother." Here, he trades sharp lines for gentle smudges, making the scene feel private, almost secret. If you like how he softens light and shadow, look up the technique called *sfumato*.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom.
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