child-model

Updated: July 10, 2025

Whistler presented a copy of his edition of The Gentle Art of Making Enemies to "Theodore Watts, the Worldling." "Carmen" was then thirty years old; weight, one hundred and ninety pounds. But she once had been his child-model. A Scotch student in the class had worked out the face of an old peasant woman illuminated by a candle. "How beautifully you have painted the candle!" Whistler commended.

- Whistler Stories