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

 

M.1393
The Little Blue Cap

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1894/1895
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 2012.96
Medium: charcoal, watercolour and gouache
Support: brown wove paper laid down on board
Size: 10 15/16 x 7 3/16" (278 x 182 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: v.: 'No.1./ 60 [crossed out] 61/ "The Little Blue Cap"/ 22 x 16/ Exhibited Paris 1905/ Rotterdam' in unknown hands

The Little Blue Cap

Sitter

The Little Blue Cap, Art Institute of Chicago
The Little Blue Cap, Art Institute of Chicago

Unknown; possibly the same model as in Blue and Gold - The Rose Azalea [M.1392].

Last updated: 11th December 2020 by Margaret