
by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 1862
James McNeill Whistler painted his mistress Joanna Hiffernan standing on a bearskin rug in 1862. She wears white against a white curtain, holding a white lily. The near-monochrome palette was radical.
The painting was rejected by the Royal Academy and the Paris Salon, but it became a sensation at the 1863 Salon des Refusés, where it hung near Manet's Olympia. Critics called it "The White Girl" and debated whether it represented innocence or fallen virtue.
Whistler later retitled it Symphony in White to emphasize that subject matter was secondary to tonal harmony. It now hangs at the National Gallery of Art.
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Giovanni Battista Moroni
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Edgar Degas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Bronzino
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Berthe Morisot
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Other masterpieces from the Impressionism movement

Claude Monet, 1875
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1881
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Claude Monet, 1899
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

James McNeill Whistler, 1871
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1881
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1881
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.

Claude Monet, 1926
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris

Claude Monet, 1872
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
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