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

 

M.1076
Harmony in Blue and Violet

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1885/1888
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1890.8a-b
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper, laid down
Size: 10 13/16 x 7 1/6" (275 x 179 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: 'Harmony in Blue & Violet', 'J. McNeill Whistler' and butterfly

Harmony in Blue and Violet

Sitter

Harmony in Blue and Violet, Freer Gallery of Art
Harmony in Blue and Violet, Freer Gallery of Art
Note in Violet and Green, Freer Gallery of Art
Note in Violet and Green, Freer Gallery of Art

The same model, in the same colours, appears to have posed for Note in Violet and Green [M.1074] when it was being re-drawn. The similarity is so close that it is possible they were exhibited together at the SBA in 1885-1886, and that Harmony in Blue and Violet is Harmony in Opal and Violet [M.1075].

Last updated: 27th February 2021 by Margaret