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

 

A Red Note: FĂȘte on the Sands, Ostend

Technique


                    A Red Note: Fête on the Sands, Ostend, Terra Foundation for American Art
A Red Note: Fête on the Sands, Ostend, Terra Foundation for American Art

The figures are not individualised at all and, for its scale, the panel is painted very broadly. The orange wood has been primed in grey and the paint applied thinly with soft brushes.

Conservation History

Unknown.

Frame

37.5 x 47.0 x 5.1 cm (14 3/4 x 18 1/2 x 2").

Last updated: 31st March 2021 by Margaret