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Vives Les Debardeures [sic]!! (from Sketchbook)

James McNeill Whistler

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Black-and-white sketch with four panels. The largest panel on the left shows three women standing side-by-side, wearing old-fashioned dresses and hats. The woman on the left wears a short-sleeved dress and short hat. The central woman wears a large-brimmed hat and a dress with a fitted waist. The woman on the right wears a hat on the back of her head and a long dress. Underneath this panel is blurry writing. The top-right panel shows a woman in profile facing left, wearing a headscarf and a long skirt, holding a basket. The bottom-right panel shows a man wearing a hat and loose-fitting clothes, holding a object in one hand. The bottom-left panel shows a person lying on their stomach propped on their elbows beside a table. The text under the top-right and bottom-right panels is barely legible. The background of the sketch is white.

Artwork details

Date:
1854–55
Medium:
Black ink and graphite off-white wove paper
Culture:
American
Dimensions:
502 × 624 px
Museum record:
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