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

 

YMSM 196
Harmony in Blue: The Duet

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1877/1878
Collection: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Accession Number: Jesse Metcalf Fund 14.083
Medium: oil
Support: wood
Size: 27.3 x 45.7 cm (10 3/4 x 18")
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Harmony in Blue: The Duet

Technique

Harmony in Blue: The Duet, RISD
Harmony in Blue: The Duet, RISD

Thinly painted, with dry, uncertain brushstrokes on the background, and more fluid ones on the figures. It is clearly unfinished, which may account for the technique, which is not very like Whistler's usual work.

Conservation History

Unknown.

Frame

Unknown.

Last updated: 12th November 2019 by Margaret