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

 

M.1117
Chelsea fruit shop

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1886/1887
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 1943.622
Medium: pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 6 5/16 x 9 13/16" (160 x 249 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Chelsea fruit shop

Technique

Chelsea fruit shop, Fogg Art Museum
Chelsea fruit shop, Fogg Art Museum

Whistler rarely drew London streets in pastel. See discussion in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1117).

Last updated: 9th March 2021 by Margaret