Titles

It is not absolutely certain that the documents refer to the same picture, but possible references are as follows:

• 'toile de vingt' (1862, Whistler). 1
• 'une tranchée de chemin de fer' (1862, Whistler). 2
• 'Subject Unknown' (1980, YMSM). 3

Description

If the letters cited under DATE all refer to the same canvas, then it showed 'une tranchée de chemin de fer' (a railway cutting). 4

There is a railway cutting in the middle distance in A White Note [YMSM 044], but it could hardly be considered the principal subject of the painting.

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This was painted in Guéthary, Basses-Pyrénées, and may have shown a landscape there, but it could possibly have included a figure or figures.