Plate 37 , lift. James Whistler, Arrangement in
Flesh Color and Black: Portrait of Theodore
Duret, 188 3-1884, oil on canvas. Wolfe Fund,
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, 1913
(13.20). © 1984 by The Metropolitan Museum
if Art.Plate 38, above. Detail of a reflection from Whis
tler's Nocturne: Blue and Silver, showing that
the paint has been dragged horizontally when both
the white overpaint and blue underlayer were still
wet, to produce the iffect if light on the water sur
face.