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Venus

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1898.295)
Number: 60
Date: 1859
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 153 x 230 mm
Signed: 'Whistler.' at lower left
Inscribed: '1859.' at lower left
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 27
Catalogues: K.59; M.59; T.27; W.56
Impressions taken from this plate  (27)
Whistler dated this etching '1859.' on the copper plate.
It is one of three portraits of the same sitter done in that year (Fumette standing [59], Fumette's Bent Head [58]) and several other portraits done in Paris including Finette [61].