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Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl is completed

1860 CE · North America · Culture

Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl is completed
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Symphony in White, No. 1, also known as The White Girl, is a painting by James McNeill Whistler. The work shows a woman in full figure standing on a wolf skin in front of a beige curtain with a lily in her hand. The colour scheme of the painting is almost entirely white. The model is Joanna Hiffernan, the artist's mistress.

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