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

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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

Provenance

  • 1853/1854: drawn at the United States Military Academy, West Point, where it entered the U. S. Military Academy Library.

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 173)

Exhibitions

  • 1904: Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 171) as one of two 'Cadet Dawings under instruction'.

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