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

 

YMSM 192
Harmony in Pink and Red

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1876/1878
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: oil
Support: canvas
Size: ca 191 x 98 cm (75 x 38½")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: unknown
Frame: unknown

Harmony in Pink and Red

Composition

Harmony in Pink and Red, photograph, New York Public Library
Harmony in Pink and Red, photograph, New York Public Library
Harmony in Flesh Colour and Black: Portrait of Mrs Louise Jopling, The Hunterian
Harmony in Flesh Colour and Black: Portrait of Mrs Louise Jopling, The Hunterian

In composition and costume Harmony in Pink and Red [YMSM 192] is very like Harmony in Flesh Colour and Black: Portrait of Mrs Louise Jopling [YMSM 191]. 1

Technique

Harmony in Pink and Red, photograph, New York Public Library
Harmony in Pink and Red, photograph, New York Public Library

Judging from the photographs, it was painted with thin liquid paint in a very free technique, with the background wash of thinned paint (sometimes referred to as Whistler's 'sauce') running down onto the dress.

Conservation History

Unknown. Probably destroyed.

Frame

Unknown.

Notes:

1: MacDonald 2003 [more] , pp. 139, 142.

Last updated: 21st May 2021 by Margaret