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

 

YMSM 455
Brown and Gold: The Curé's Little Class

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1896
Collection: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Accession Number: 78.038
Medium: oil
Support: wood
Size: 124 x 213 mm (4 7/8 x 8 3/8")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Brown and Gold: The Curé's Little Class

Technique

Brown and Gold: The Curé's Little Class, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Brown and Gold: The Curé's Little Class, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art

The pale grey ground shows through the long strokes of thin paint.

Conservation History

Brown and Gold: The Curé's Little Class, photograph, 1965
Brown and Gold: The Curé's Little Class, photograph, 1965
Brown and Gold: The Curé's Little Class, photograph, 1970s
Brown and Gold: The Curé's Little Class, photograph, 1970s
Brown and Gold: The Curé's Little Class, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Brown and Gold: The Curé's Little Class, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art

Unknown. Photographs show little change since the 1960s, except that some abrasion and paint loss at the edges appears to have been repaired.

Frame

Unknown.

Last updated: 13th November 2020 by Margaret