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

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M.0374
r.: Harmony in Gold and Brown; v.: Draped figure

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1870/1873
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 5 1/8 x 10" (130 x 254 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: 'Harmony in Gold & Brown/ Pastel by Whistler/ Selected from several Pastels at the White House./ Whistler gave me my choice from a lot he had in his Studio & I brought this away with me./ P. R. W.' by Pickford Waller

r.: Harmony in Gold and Brown; v.: Draped figure

r.: Harmony in Gold and Brown; v.: Draped figure date from 1870/1873 and was signed about 1878.

The recto may have been exhibited in Mr Whistler's Exhibition, Flemish Gallery, 48 Pall Mall, London, 1874 (cat. no. 23).

r.: Harmony in Gold and Brown, Private Collection
r.: Harmony in Gold and Brown, Private Collection

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 374) as' r.: Harmony in Gold and Brown; v.: Nude figure.'

Last updated: 31st May 2021 by Margaret