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

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Green and silver - Parc Monceau, Paris

Technique


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

Last updated: 18th April 2021 by Margaret