James McNeill Whistler - Blue and Coral The Little Blue Bonnet 1898
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Blue and Coral The Little Blue Bonnet 1898
82x68cm oil/canvas
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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From Los Angeles County Museum of Art:
Blue and Coral: The Little Blue Bonnet is a fancy picture from the end of Whistler's career and represents his mature style. It is the largest of his oval portraits and is one of his most finished works from this period. Whistler was an experimental artist even late in life. Many of his paintings were executed thinly, in glazes, as in The Little Bonnet. The costume is deliberately sketchy — the sitter's body and hat are depicted for their colors rather than for any accuracy of detail. Her face, on the other hand, is quite fully rendered and emerges out of the dark tones of the picture with great delicacy.