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

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Portrait of Teresa Cerutti

Technique

The sitter said, 'With me he [Whistler] began at once by drawing in the bust with a brush and sienna', drawing only the outline in the first sitting, and at the second, he 'made flat tones in sienna, in many shades.' 1

Conservation History

Unknown.

Frame

Unknown.

Notes:

1: Cerutti, Teresa, An Intimate View of James McNeill Whistler (t. s., n.d.), pp. 10-12, copy in GUL.

Last updated: 3rd April 2020 by Margaret