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

 

Copy after a Picture of an Inundation

Technique

Nothing is known about the technique, although, given the similarities between Whistler's surviving copies, it was probably a carefully painted oil painting on canvas. Whistler commented, 'I have no doubt I made something very interesting out of them. There were very wonderful things even then, the beginning of harmonies and purple schemes. I suppose it must have been intuitive.' 1

Conservation History

Unknown.

Frame

Unknown.

Notes:

1: Quoted by Pennell 1921C [more] , p. 171.

Last updated: 21st November 2019 by Margaret