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

 

M.0566
Studies of male and female figures

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1875
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: pencil, crayon, and/or chalk
Support: brown paper
Size: unknown
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown

Studies of male and female figures

Technique

Reviews described them variously as being in chalk, crayon or pencil, on rough brown paper. The Architect described them as 'maunderings in graduated greys.' 1

Notes:

1: Anon., 'Society of French Artists', The Architect, 27 November 1875, p. 299.

Last updated: 9th March 2021 by Margaret