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

 

M.0990
Window in the Peacock Room

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1884
Collection: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
Accession Number: P27w13
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: off-white laid paper, partial watermark '[ORIG]INAL/ [TURKE]Y MILL'
Size: 4 5/16 x 7" (110 x 178 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Window in the Peacock Room

Composition

Window in the Peacock Room, I. S. Gardner Museum
Window in the Peacock Room, I. S. Gardner Museum
Shutters in the Peacock Room, Freer Gallery of Art
Shutters in the Peacock Room, Freer Gallery of Art

This is a memory drawing, the only one that shows the windows, rather than the closed shutters. It is not a preliminary study for Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room [YMSM 178].

Hadley considered the drawings were made in preparation for the decoration, but this is unlikely. 1

Notes:

1: Hadley 1968 [more] , pp. 37-41, no. 18.

Last updated: 10th May 2021 by Margaret