1893
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Nude Model on an Empire Sofa is a 1893 ink by James McNeill Whistler, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This painting shows a woman sitting on a sofa. She's naked and looking straight at us. Her legs are crossed, and her arms are resting on the sofa. The sofa has a high back and is covered in a fancy fabric. The woman is sitting in a room with a plain wall behind her. The room is lit from the left side, so the right side of the woman's body is in shadow. The artist used a lithograph technique to create the painting, which means it's a print made from a stone plate. If you like this painting, you might want to check out more works by the artist, Whistler, James McNeill.
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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