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

 

YMSM 483
Harmony in Blue and Silver: Beaching the Boat, Étretat

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1897-1898
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 1943.175
Medium: oil
Support: wood
Size: 136 x 235 mm (5 3/8 x 9 1/4")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none
Frame: Grau-style, American, M. Grieve, ca 1930

Harmony in Blue and Silver: Beaching the Boat, Étretat

Technique

Harmony in Blue and Silver: Beaching the Boat, Étretat, Fogg Museum
Harmony in Blue and Silver: Beaching the Boat, Étretat, Fogg Museum

It is painted on a grey-primed reddish-brown wood panel. The soft brush strokes on the sky and beach contrast with the more fluid strokes on the sea, and the neatly painted vivid strokes of colour on the left, where the shapes of the figures hauling up their boat echo the curves of the breakers.

Conservation History

Unknown.

Frame

Harmony in Blue and Silver: Beaching the Boat, framed
Harmony in Blue and Silver: Beaching the Boat, framed

Grau-style, made by M. Grieve, dating from ca 1930. 1 Size: 29.5 x 40 x 4.5 cm (11 5/8 x 15 3/4 x 1 3/4").

Notes:

1: Dr S. L. Parkerson Day, Report on frames, 2017. See also Parkerson 2007 [more] .

Last updated: 18th October 2020 by Margaret