1896
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
The Siesta is a 1896 ink by James McNeill Whistler, a Impressionism work, depicting Sleep, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows a woman asleep in a chair, head tipped back, mouth slightly open. The room is dark except for a single light source on her face. Her clothes are simple, her posture relaxed. Whistler made this in 1896 using a printing method called lithography. It lets artists draw directly on stone with greasy crayons. This print feels soft and quiet, like a snapshot of real life. Try looking up Whistler, James McNeill next.
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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