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Jo, the Beautiful Irish Girl
The Irish girl in this painting is Joanna Heffernan. She modelled for the painter James Abbott MacNeill Whistler, with whom she lived. Courbet met her in Normandy in 1865 and they became very close friends. In the painting she pulls her hand through her loose, red hair, while gazing at her reflection in the mirror – a subject charged with symbolism associating to themes such as provocative sensual…
Creator
Type of item
- Visual arts
- paintings (visual works)
- http://udcdata.info/065280
- Visual Works (hierarchy name)
Creator
Type of item
- Visual arts
- paintings (visual works)
- http://udcdata.info/065280
- Visual Works (hierarchy name)
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Nationalmuseum, Sweden
Creation date
- 1866
- 1866
Provenance
- Gift of the Friends of the Nationalmuseum 1926
Identifier
- NM 2543
- 19604
Extent
- Mått 54 x 65 cm
Format
- Oil on canvas
- Oil painting
Year
- 1866
Providing country
- Sweden
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2017-01-11T14:09:19.320Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2017-01-11T14:26:50.605Z