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

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M.0289
r.: Fumette; v.: Dancing clowns

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1858
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1898.150
Medium: r: pencil and saguine chalk; v: pencil
Support: beige wove paper
Size: 8 1/2" x 5 7/8" (216 x 150 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: r.: 'SH', possibly by F. S. Haden; v.: 'Fumette / Red chalk / drawing' in an unknown hand

r.: Fumette; v.: Dancing clowns

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 289) as 'r.: Fumette; v.: Dancing clowns'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 235, pl. 200.

Websites

  • Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1898.150, as 'A two-sided drawing of Fumette and Dancing Clowns'.

Last updated: 14th December 2019 by Margaret