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

 

M.0319
Sketch for 'Variations in Flesh Colour and Green: The Balcony'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1864
Collection: New York Public Library
Accession Number: Avery Collection
Medium: pencil, pen and dark brown ink
Support: white laid paper
Size: 8 7/16 x 7 3/8" (215 x 188 mm)
Signature: butterfly, possibly not by Whistler
Inscription: 'Sketch for Variations in Flesh Color & Green "The Balcony" '

Sketch for 'Variations in Flesh Colour and Green: The Balcony'

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 319) as "Sketch for 'Variations in Flesh Colour and Green: The Balcony' ".
  • Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (oil, cat. no. 56).

Websites

  • New York Public Library website at https://digitalcollections.nypl.org.

Last updated: 17th February 2021 by Margaret