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

 

M.0484
r.: Nocturne: Battersea Bridge; v.: Standing Female Nude

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1872/1873
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1904.64a-c
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper laid down on card
Size: 7 1/8-7 3/16 x 11" (181-183 x 280 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

r.: Nocturne: Battersea Bridge; v.: Standing Female Nude

Composition

r.: Nocturne: Battersea Bridge, Freer Gallery of Art
r.: Nocturne: Battersea Bridge, Freer Gallery of Art
Blue and Silver: Screen, with Old Battersea Bridge, The Hunterian
Blue and Silver: Screen, with Old Battersea Bridge, The Hunterian

The composition is closely related to that of Blue and Silver: Screen, with Old Battersea Bridge [YMSM 139].

Technique

r.: Nocturne: Battersea Bridge, Freer Gallery of Art
r.: Nocturne: Battersea Bridge, Freer Gallery of Art
v.: Standing Female Nude, Freer Gallery of Art
v.: Standing Female Nude, Freer Gallery of Art

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 484).

Last updated: 8th March 2021 by Margaret