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

 

M.0782
The Staircase; note in red

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1880
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1902.174a-b
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 11 5/16 x 7 15/16" (287 x 202 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'N11 11 x 7 ¾'

The Staircase; note in red

Technique

The Staircase; note in red, Freer Gallery of Art
The Staircase; note in red, Freer Gallery of Art

See discussion in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 782).

Conservation History

It was drawn over another sketch, drawn the opposite way up, showing some arches, and signed with a butterfly.

Last updated: 16th February 2021 by Margaret