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Whistler’s girl restored to favour

Scholars now believe Symphony in White is one of 50 rolled-up canvases that vanished after artist's bankruptcy

Emily Sharpe
4 March 2016
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s Symphony in White: the Girl in the Muslin Dress (around 1870), a work that, until recently, had languished in a storeroom for decades at the Singer Museum in Laren, the Netherlands, after its authenticity was called into question, has been restored thanks to support from the Tefaf Museum Restoration Fund. A recent technical study showed it to be a work by Whistler, and scholars now believe that it is one of 50 rolled-up canvases that vanished after the artist went bankrupt as a result of his expensive and sensational slander lawsuit against John Ruskin. The work had undergone at least three previous treatments. The recent €22,000, year-long restoration focused on removing aged varnish and overpainting.

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