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

Description

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

At left, a young woman with improbably narrow waist stands in a doorway, facing three-quarter right, talking to a milkmaid.

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