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

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M.1518
Street in Bourges

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1888
Collection: Cumner Museum of Art, Jacksonville, FL
Accession Number: C.197
Medium: watercolour
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 8 1/2 x 5 1/8" (215 x 130 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Street in Bourges

Street in Bourges probably dates from 1888. Whistler and his wife were in Bourges in the last week of September 1888, during their honeymoon in the Loire valley.

Street in Bourges, Cumner Museum of Art.
Street in Bourges, Cumner Museum of Art.

It was catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1518) dated 1897/1899. This entry has been revised.

Last updated: 25th February 2021 by Margaret