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

 

YMSM 170
Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1875
Collection: Detroit Institute Of Arts
Accession Number: 46.309
Medium: oil
Support: canvas
Size: 60.3 x 46.6 cm (23 3/4 x 18 3/8")
Signature: none
Inscription: none
Frame: Grau Whistler, 1892

Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket
Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, Detroit Institute of Arts
Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, Detroit Institute of Arts
Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, Detroit Institute of Arts
Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, Detroit Institute of Arts
Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, photo 1892, Goupil Album, GUL Whistler PH5/2
Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, photo 1892, Goupil Album, GUL Whistler PH5/2

On 2 May 1892 Whistler wrote to David Croal Thomson (1855-1930) about the photographs for the Goupil Album: 'The two firework picture[s] are marvellous! - and are wonderful proof of the completeness of those works.' 1

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