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

 

M.0398
Study for the 'Purple Iris'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1871/1872
Collection: National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
Accession Number: n/a
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 7 13/16 x 3 7/16-3 9/16" (198 x 87-90 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Study for the 'Purple Iris'

Composition

Study for the 'Purple Iris', National Museum of Wales
Study for the 'Purple Iris', National Museum of Wales

This may be a study, as the title implies, for The Purple Iris [M.0397].

Last updated: 8th March 2021 by Margaret