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

 

YMSM 544
A Corsican Child

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1901
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46374
Medium: oil
Support: canvas
Size: 51.8 x 31.5 cm (20 3/8 x 12 3/8")
Signature: none
Inscription: none
Frame: Whistlerian Flat, 1920s

A Corsican Child

Technique

A Corsican Child, The Hunterian
A Corsican Child, The Hunterian

It was painted with thin, almost dry breaststrokes on a canvas with mid-grey priming. 1 It is very thinly painted, with some rubbing on the face, as part of the painting process. The head is the area most finished, the lower part of the canvas being barely touched.

Conservation History

Unknown. It is in good condition.

Frame

A Corsican Child, The Hunterian
A Corsican Child, The Hunterian
A Corsican Child, frame detail, The Hunterian
A Corsican Child, frame detail, The Hunterian

A Whistlerian Flat frame, dating from the 1920s. 2

Notes:

1: Dr Joyce H. Townsend, Tate Britain, Report of examination, April 2017.

2: Dr S. L. Parkerson Day, Report on frames, 2017. See also Parkerson 2007 [more] .

Last updated: 22nd October 2020 by Margaret