# ‘Arrangement in Yellow and Gray’: Effie Deans

- By: James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Lowell, 1834–1903)
- Date: c. 1876 - c. 1878
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 194 cm x width 93 cm x depth 9 cm
- Credit line: Gift of M.C., Baroness van Lynden-van Pallandt, The Hague
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-1902--895b07048d5aa8628495e274abf24f74)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/pqdys/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Whistler here connected painting with music and literature, alluded to by the title of this piece. He used the musical term ‘arrangement’ to draw attention to the composition of colours. Later on, he added the literary subtitle ‘Effie Deans’ after the heroine of a novel by the Scottish writer Walter Scott. The model posing for Whistler in this painting is Maud Franklin, who worked with him for more than fifteen years.