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

 

M.1183
Green and Blue - The Fields - Loches

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1888
Collection: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Accession Number: 60.87
Medium: watercolour
Support: white linen or silk
Size: 6 7/8 x 10 11/16" (122 x 206 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: 'Green and Blue', signed with butterfly; 'Made by Whistler in the Touraine in 1888 when he and his wife were there on their wedding journey -' written by Howard Mansfield; and in an unknown hand, 'H. M. bought this on the last day of the lst Exhibition of Whistler Watercolor in New York held at H.Wunderlich and Company. H. M. has wished for it all along and an unexpected fee enabled him to acquire it.'

Green and Blue - The Fields - Loches

Green and Blue - The Fields - Loches dates from the autumn of 1888, during the Whistlers' honeymoon.

Green and Blue – The Fields – Loches, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Green and Blue – The Fields – Loches, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1183).

Last updated: 27th February 2021 by Margaret