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

 

Note in flesh-colour gold - The Golden Blossom

Composition

This is one of a series of studies of a nude woman holding a flowering plant in a pot.

Technique


                    Note in flesh-colour gold – The Golden Blossom, The Hunterian
Note in flesh-colour gold – The Golden Blossom, The Hunterian

The figure is outlined in black, with touches of white and pink rubbed slightly, leaving the brown of the paper showing through, to suggests flesh. There are some pentimenti on the arms and legs.

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 402).

Last updated: 29th April 2021 by Margaret