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Japanese Woman Painting a Fan (recto); Standing Woman Holding Up Her Dress (verso)

James McNeill Whistler

Cleveland Museum of Art

The image depicts two drawings of women on brown paper. The left drawing shows a standing woman in profile facing right, with her head wrapped in a blue and yellow headscarf. She wears a long blue, yellow, and orange robe and holds a fan in her right hand. The fan has a white center with orange and blue edges. The background has yellow, blue, red, and white marks. The right drawing shows a standing woman in a simple dress with her left arm bent, holding up her dress. The drawing is a simple pencil sketch on a plain brown background. The drawings are separated by a white line.

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900 × 699 px
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