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

 

M.0173
'Milkmaids' after Beauboeuf

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1854
Collection: United States Military Academy, West Point, NY
Accession Number: Stockbridge Number: 0345c
Medium: charcoal, watercolour and gouache
Support: cream wove paper, watermark 'WHAT [MAN]'
Size: 26 3/8 x 18 1/2" (670 x 470 mm)
Signature: 'J. Whistler.'
Inscription: none

'Milkmaids' after Beauboeuf

'Milkmaids' after Beauboeuf dates from 1854, and was done when Whistler studied under Robert Walter Weir (1803-1889) at USMA, West Point.

'Milkmaids' after Beauboeuf, USMA
'Milkmaids' after Beauboeuf, USMA

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 173).

Last updated: 3rd March 2021 by Margaret