1868
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
The Little Hat is a 1868 ink by James McNeill Whistler, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a woman wearing a small hat and a high-necked dress. Her face is turned slightly toward us, but her eyes look away. The lines around her are loose and quick, like scribbles, while the hat’s details are sharper. The background is filled with messy, crisscrossed strokes that feel almost like wind. This look was a choice—artists sometimes used this style to show movement or emotion. Next, check out etching, drypoint, aquatint to see how artists like Whistler made prints like this.
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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