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

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M.1527
The Green Cap

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1892, 1902
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1902.112a-c
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper laid down on card
Size: 7-7 1/16 x 10 3/4-10 7/8" (178-180 x 273-276 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

The Green Cap

Sitter

The Green Cap, Freer Gallery of Art
The Green Cap, Freer Gallery of Art

If it dates from 1892 it could have shown Rose Amy Pettigrew (b. 1872) , but it does not really look like her. If it was completed in the later 1890s, then Eva Victoria Carrington (1887-1979) is a more likely model.

Last updated: 6th March 2021 by Margaret