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

 

M.0881
The Yellow Room

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1883/1884
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Accession Number: 2017.664
Medium: watercolour and gouache
Support: ivory paper on paperboard
Size: 9 3/4 x 7" (248 x 178 mm)
Signature: butterfly (and traces of two butterflies)
Inscription: none

The Yellow Room

Site

The Yellow Room, Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Yellow Room, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Whistler's house at 13 Tite Street, Chelsea, London.

Sitter

The Yellow Room, Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Yellow Room, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Maud Franklin (1857-1939) .

Last updated: 5th June 2021 by Margaret