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

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M.0280
'Adieu mes enfants! il est l'heure'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1858
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1898.179
Medium: pencil
Support: off-white wove paper
Size: 4 7/8" x 3 3/4" (124 x 96 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'Adieu mes enfants! il est l'heure - [gare] au poste!'

'Adieu mes enfants! il est l'heure'

'Adieu mes enfants! il est l'heure' probably dates from October 1858.

'Adieu mes enfants! il est l'heure', Freer Gallery of Art
'Adieu mes enfants! il est l'heure', Freer Gallery of Art

The drawing is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 280).

Last updated: 14th December 2019 by Margaret