Technique

Green and silver – Parc Monceau, Paris, Colby College Museum of Art

This was a complex, mainly layered scene, and painted freely by Whistler with comparatively bold squiggly strokes of small brushes. The trees and water were painted with brush strokes overlapping and running into each other. Details such as the swans and figures were added in opaque body colour after the earlier washes had dried.

Conservation History

The paper, which has a flat untextured surface, is slightly darkened at the edges.