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

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Five paintings at the Galerie Georges Petit

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: MS Whistler P402
Medium: pencil
Support: cream wove paper, printed heading of ‘HOTEL, CHATHAM’, coat of arms and motto (‘BENIGNO NUMINE’), watermark of a crown over ‘VICTORIA / NOTE PAPER’
Size: 272 x 216 mm (10 11/16 x 8 1/2")
Signature: letter signed ‘the General’
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Five paintings at the Galerie Georges Petit

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Five paintings at the Galerie Georges Petit, Glasgow University Library
Five paintings at the Galerie Georges Petit, Glasgow University Library
Variations in Blue and Green, Freer Gallery of Art
Variations in Blue and Green, Freer Gallery of Art
Symphony in Blue and Pink, Freer Gallery of Art
Symphony in Blue and Pink, Freer Gallery of Art

The sketch shows the arrangement of Whistler’s five paintings at the Exposition Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Galeries George Petit, Paris, 1899, among them Variations in Blue and Green [YMSM 084] and Symphony in Blue and Pink [YMSM 086] and Portrait of Miss Marian Draughn [YMSM 533].

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