Artist.27s model Joanna Hiffernan

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gustave courbet, la belle irlandaise (portrait of jo) 1865–1866, metropolitan museum of art, painting of joanna hiffernan


whistler first met hiffernan in 1860 while @ studio in rathbone place, , went on have 6-year relationship him, during period modelled of famous paintings. physically striking, hiffernan s personality more impressive. whistler s biographers , friends, pennells, wrote of her,



she not beautiful. intelligent, sympathetic. gave whistler constant companionship not without.



whistler s family did not approve of hiffernan. unmarried artists models, , posed nude, considered @ time little better prostitutes. however, hiffernan seems have modeled friends, perhaps objections made whistler s family based more on social class on hifferman s personal character. when whistler s mother visited america in 1864, alternative accommodation had found hiffernan, seems have been cause of whistler s quarrel alphonse legros in 1863.


she in france whistler during summer of 1861, , while in paris during winter of 1861–62 sat symphony in white, no. i: white girl @ studio in boulevard des batignolles , in 1864–65 posed symphony in white, no. 2: little white girl. possible when met whistler s friend , fellow artist, gustave courbet, whom later modeled. there thought – confirmed experts found part of picture showing woman s head – model courbet s l origine du monde, depicts nude woman s vulva.



gustave courbet, le sommeil (sleep), 1866, petit palais, musée des beaux-arts de la ville de paris


hiffernan attended séances whistler @ dante gabriel rossetti s house in chelsea in 1863, , spent summer , autumn of 1865 in trouville whistler. in 1866, whistler gave hiffernan power of attorney on affairs while in valparaiso 7 months, making provision household expenses , giving authority act agent in sale of works.


during whistler s absence, hiffernan travelled paris , posed courbet in sleepers, or le sommeil depicts 2 naked women in bed asleep. had affair courbet @ time. after end of relationship hiffernan, whistler left in favour.








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