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James McNeill Whistler

The Toilet

1878
Lithotint with scraping and incising, on a prepared half-tint ground, in black on cream wove paper
26 × 16.4 cm (10.2 × 6.5 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

From the early 1870s until the late 1880s, Maud Franklin posed formally and informally for many of Whistler’s paintings, drawings, and prints. Initially his professional model, she soon became Whistler’s mistress, but their relationship ended with his marriage to Beatrice Godwin in 1888. Franklin also modeled for Mortimer Menpes and William Stott of Oldham.

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