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

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M.0308
Design for a picture frame

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1862
Collection: Lucas Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art
Accession Number: n/a
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: white laid paper
Size: 8 1/4 x 10 5/16" (210 x 262 mm)
Signature: 'Jim Whistler' [signature on letter]
Inscription: [letter]

Design for a picture frame

Frame

Design for a picture frame, Baltimore Museum of Art
Design for a picture frame, Baltimore Museum of Art

A 'toile de soixante' is a canvas stretcher for a marine painting measuring 130 x 81 cm. A 'toile de vingt' is a canvas stretcher measuring either 73 x 60 cm (for landscape paintings) or 73 x 50 cm (for marine paintings). Lucas ordered the frames at Dutocq's on 21 October and went with Whistler to see them on 2 December 1862. 1 The paintings have not been identified.

Notes:

1: Randall 1979 [more] , vol. 2, pp. 143, 145. See also Parkerson 2007 [more] .

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