Caprice in Purple and Gold: The Golden Screen

1864

Oil on wood panel, 50.1 × 68.5 cm. Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, DC

A model in Japanese dress sits before a gilded folding screen, looking through color prints.

The Irish model Joanna Hiffernan is surrounded by Asian objects from Whistler's own collection.
Shown at the Royal Academy in London in 1865.
Look at the print she studies: it comes from Hiroshige's Sixty-odd Provinces series.