Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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M.0910
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Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1888
Collection: Musées Royaux des Beaux Arts de Belgique, Brussels
Accession Number: Art Contemporains Arch. 5076/21
Medium: pen and black ink
Support: cream laid paper, partial watermark 'ANTIQUE'
Size: 5 7/8 x 3 13/16" (149 x 97 mm)
Signature: Letter, signed on a separate sheet
Inscription: left to right, top, '5. / 8 / No 1. / 4./ 8.', and below '7. / No. 2. / 6.', above 'Mon paneau, so bon vous semble? -'
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Paintings for exhibition

Paintings for exhibition dates from January 1888 and was sent to Octave Maus (1856-1919) and reproduced in the catalogue of the Ve Exposition des XX, Société des XX, Brussels, 1888. 1

Paintings for exhibition, Musées Royaux Des Beaux Arts De Belgique
Paintings for exhibition, Musées Royaux Des Beaux Arts De Belgique

This work was catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 910) where it was wrongly dated 1883; the record has been corrected.

Notes:

1: Whistler to O. Maus, [20/26 January 1888], GUW #09244.

Last updated: 18th February 2021 by Margaret