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

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M.0734
Riva, Venice; v.: Heads and hats

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1879/1880
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
Accession Number: 1949.519
Medium: chalk
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 7 15/16 x 11 5/8" (202 x 296 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: unidentified collector's mark

Riva, Venice; v.: Heads and hats

Technique

Riva, Venice, Cleveland Museum of Art
Riva, Venice, Cleveland Museum of Art

The lines are curiously tentative, broken, and unconvincing. This may be a very early sketch for a pastel, but it is not like Whistler's usual work. 1

Notes:

1: See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 734).

Last updated: 10th May 2021 by Margaret