Technique

The Terra Foundation website says:

'Both figure and setting are sketchily painted in thin washes of muted watercolor, suggesting the artist’s rapid, on-site execution. This work is typical of many of Whistler’s watercolors, which he left deliberately unfinished for evocative effect. Their evidence of rapid creative process was central to Whistler’s idea that an artist’s long experience and aesthetic genius were expressed in the merest stroke of the brush and on the most intimate scale.' 1

Frame

Frame: 14 3/16 x 17 9/16" (36.0 x 44.6 cm).