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

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YMSM 415
Street in Brittany

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1888/1893
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: oil
Support: unknown
Size: unknown
Signature: unknown
Inscription: none
Frame: unknown
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Street in Brittany

Titles

Suggested titles include:

  • Possibly 'Brittany' (1894, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts). 1
  • 'Street in Brittany' (1963, A. McN. Reid). 2
  • 'Street in Brittany' (1980, YMSM). 3

Description

A street scene.

Site

Brittany, France. In July 1893 Whistler visited Brittany and in September, Paimpol on the Côtes du nord.

Notes:

1: 64th Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1894 (cat. no. 323). This is by no means certain!

2: Information from A. McN. Reid, 1963, GU WPP files.

3: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 415).

Last updated: 26th October 2019 by Margaret