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

 

Violet and Blue

Description

The Magazine of Art described it as a 'girl red on purple and holding a blue fan', and the Saturday Review, as 'a girl lying on purple stuffs and holding a blue fan ... but one cannot help regretting the false proportion of the legs.' 1

Notes:

1: Magazine of Art May 1886 [more] , at p. xxxi; Saturday Review, 22 May 1886.

Last updated: 16th February 2021 by Margaret