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

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M.0133
'Vive les Débardeurs!!'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1853/1854
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Accession Number: 1970.121.34
Medium: pencil, pen and black ink
Support: off-white wove paper laid down in an album
Size: 4 13/16 x 2 3/16" (122 x 56 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'Vive les Debardeures!!' [sic]

'Vive les Débardeurs!!'

'Vive les Débardeurs!!' dates from 1853/1854 and was given to Thomas de Kay Winans (1820-1878) and family, who stuck it in an album.

'Vive les Débardeurs!!', Metropolitan Museum of Art
'Vive les Débardeurs!!', Metropolitan Museum of Art

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 133).

Last updated: 13th March 2021 by Margaret