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

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M.0213
Scene from Bohemian life

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1855/1857
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 1956.350
Medium: graphite pencil, pen and ink, watercolour and white opaque paint
Support: tan laid paper, laid down on cream board
Size: 9 1/2" circle diameter (241 mm circle diameter)
Signature: 'J. Whistler.'
Inscription: none

Scene from Bohemian life

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 211) as 'Scene from Bohemian life'.

Books, General

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., 'James McNeill Whistler: An Artist on Artists', in: Visual Culture in Britain, vol. 16, Issue 2, 2015, pp. 200-22, Taylor and Francis Online, DOI: 10.1080/14714787.2015.1038437.

Websites

  • Stephanie L. Strother, 'Scene from Bohemian Life', in Clarke, Jay A., and Sarah Kelly Oehler, eds., Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, website (cat. no. 6).

Last updated: 10th April 2021 by Margaret