Florence Leyland

James McNeill Whistler

Cleveland Museum of Art

A full-length portrait of a woman with long wavy hair, wearing a long-sleeved dress. She is standing facing the viewer with her left leg forward and slightly bent. Her arms are down by her sides with her right hand slightly extended. The dress she wears reaches down to her ankles with a horizontal line across the bottom. The background is shaded with vertical lines, with darker shading behind her on the left. The image is rendered in shades of gray on a rectangular piece of paper.