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

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M.0002
Head of a Russian priest

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1842
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: unknown
Support: unknown
Size: unknown
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown

Head of a Russian priest

Description

Whistler drew a number of male heads including priests in his St Petersburg Sketchbook [M.0007] (pp. 36, 39) but they are rather generalised studies and probably not based on Russian regalia.

Last updated: 12th December 2018 by Margaret