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

 

M.1300
Rose and Pink - the Mother's sleep

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1890/1896
Collection: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Accession Number: 1911 # 325
Medium: watercolour and pencil
Support: japan paper
Size: 7 3/16 x 10 9/16" (182 x 268 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: 'Rose & Pink - the Mother's sleep'

Rose and Pink - the Mother's sleep

Technique

Although probably dating from a few years earlier, it was touched up and signed by Whistler before being sent to the owner in December 1896: 'I have seen to its completeness - and put the Butterfly in the right place!' wrote the artist. 1

Notes:

1: Whistler to J. J. Cowan, 16 December 1896, GUW #00720.

Last updated: 5th March 2021 by Margaret