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

 

Nocturne en bleu et or

Technique

Unknown. The Chronique des arts et de la curiosité pointed out the ‘fluidité’ (meaning both fluidity and fluency) of the brushwork in the nocturnes. 1 Another art critic described them as ‘barely a scumble of colour and of imperceptible nuances’ (‘à peine un frottis de couleur et des nuances insaisissables’). 2

Conservation History

Unknown.

Frame

Unknown.

Notes:

1: Chronique des arts, 16 June 1888 [more] .

2: La Société nouvelle, 16 June 1888 [more] , at p. 561.

Last updated: 18th November 2019 by Margaret