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

 

YMSM 249
Street in Old Chelsea

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1884
Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Accession Number: 09.297
Medium: oil
Support: wood
Size: 13.33 x 22.86 cm (5 1/4 x 9")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none
Frame: Grau-style, ca 1904 [12.7 cm]

Street in Old Chelsea

Street in Old Chelsea probably dates from 1884. 1

Street in Old Chelsea, Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Street in Old Chelsea, Boston Museum of Fine Arts

It is dated from the technique and butterfly signature.

Notes:

1: Dated 'about 1880/85', YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 249).

Last updated: 7th June 2021 by Margaret