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

 

M.0794
The Old Marble Palace

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1880
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1905.123a-b
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: grey wove paper
Size: 11 13/16 x 6 3/16" (300 x 157 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'x 5 1/2' (inscription cut off at left)

The Old Marble Palace

Technique

The Old Marble Palace, Freer Gallery of Art
The Old Marble Palace, Freer Gallery of Art

The technique is discussed in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 794).

Last updated: 16th February 2021 by Margaret