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Woman in White Whistler had shown some preferences for colour, but not until after he had taken his first house in London, when his mother came to live with him, did he show those peculiar outbursts of colour that were a direct outcome of the study of Japanese prints. In later years it was all tone, but in the years 1863-66, it was all colour, with a preference for white. The principal pictures of this period were
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Lange Leizen of the Six Marks: In purple and rose (in the possession of John G. Johnson);
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The Little White Girl (owned by Arthur Studd),
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The Golden Screen,
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The Princess of the Porcelain Land, and
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The Balcony: Variations of Flesh Colour (owned by Charles W. Freer) and
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The White Symphony
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Lange Leizen is shown a young woman in a Japanese costume, seated and holding with her left hand on her lap a blue and white vase of the shape known in Holland as the
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Lange Leizen of the Six Marks (referring to the potter's mark on the bottom of the vase). Her right hand, covered by the sleeve of the kimono, is raised and holds a brush. Her skirt is black with a delicate design in colours. The kimono is cream white, decorated with bright flowers and lined with rose colours. Around her hair, which falls over her shoulders, is tied a black scarf. On the floor are several blue and white vases and an Oriental carpet. To the right is a red covered table, and behind the figure is a chest. The painting is signed
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Whistler, 1864,