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

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YMSM 020
Copy after Boucher's 'Diane au bain'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1856/1858
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: oil
Support: canvas
Size: 58.4 x 68.6 cm (24 x 27")
Signature: 'Whistler'
Inscription: none
Frame: unknown

Copy after Boucher's 'Diane au bain'

Composition

J. Whistler, Copy after Boucher's 'Diane au bain', repr. Pennell 1908
J. Whistler, Copy after Boucher's 'Diane au bain', repr. Pennell 1908
F. Boucher, Diane au bain, Musée du Louvre
F. Boucher, Diane au bain, Musée du Louvre

Whistler's copy showed all of Boucher's composition and was in all essentials complete.

Technique

Whistler, Copy after Boucher's 'Diane au bain', repr. Pennell 1908
Whistler, Copy after Boucher's 'Diane au bain', repr. Pennell 1908

It appears to be a careful copy, painted without impasto, but the old photograph that is the only record of the painting is not clear enough to be certain of detail, or of colour.

Conservation History

Unknown.

Frame

Unknown.

Last updated: 25th November 2020 by Margaret