Woman in a Blue Dress, ca 1890–1909, Pastel on brown wove paper, mounted on wood board, 10 5/8 x 7 1/2 in (27 x 191 cm), Drawings, Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851–1938), Trained in Boston and Paris, Dewing preferred as his subjects idealized patrician women

Woman in a Blue Dress, ca 1890–1909, Pastel on brown wove paper, mounted on wood board, 10 5/8 x 7 1/2 in (27 x 191 cm), Drawings, Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851–1938), Trained in Boston and Paris, Dewing preferred as his subjects idealized patrician women in attitudes inspired by the figural Symphonies, Arrangements, Harmonies, and Notes by the American expatriate painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler. (Photo by: Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)