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

 

YMSM 237
Harmony in Coral and Blue: Miss Finch

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1882/1885
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46321
Medium: oil
Support: canvas
Size: 191.0 x 89.5cm (75 1/4 x 35 1/4")
Signature: none
Inscription: none
Frame: Portrait Whistler, ca 1879

Harmony in Coral and Blue: Miss Finch

Harmony in Coral and Blue: Miss Finch dates from the early 1880s, probably between 1882 and 1885. 1

Harmony in Coral and Blue: Miss Finch, The Hunterian
Harmony in Coral and Blue: Miss Finch, The Hunterian
Harmony in Fawn Colour and Purple: Portrait of Miss Milly Finch, The Hunterian
Harmony in Fawn Colour and Purple: Portrait of Miss Milly Finch, The Hunterian
Harmony in Blue and Violet: Miss Finch, The Hunterian
Harmony in Blue and Violet: Miss Finch, The Hunterian

It is dated from the costume as well as the connection to other portraits of the same sitter, Harmony in Fawn Colour and Purple: Portrait of Miss Milly Finch [YMSM 238] and Harmony in Blue and Violet: Miss Finch [YMSM 239].

Notes:

1: Dated 'probably ... mid-1880s' in YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 237).

Last updated: 4th December 2020 by Margaret