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

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YMSM 120
Nocturne: Battersea

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1872/1875
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: oil
Support: canvas
Size: 49.5 x 106.5 cm (20 x 42 1/2")
Signature: none
Inscription: none
Frame: possibly an F. H. Grau frame

Nocturne: Battersea

Technique

Nocturne: Battersea, Private Collection
Nocturne: Battersea, Private Collection

It was painted thinly on coarse canvas.

Conservation History

Nocturne: Battersea, photograph, 1980
Nocturne: Battersea, photograph, 1980

Unknown. Old photographs suggest it was perhaps rather uneven, and possibly rubbed down in areas.

Frame

Whistler Memorial Exhibition, Boston 1904, photograph, GUL Whistler PH6/6
Whistler Memorial Exhibition, Boston 1904, photograph, GUL Whistler PH6/6

By 1904, as shown in the Boston exhibition, it was in a Grau-type frame.

Last updated: 23rd October 2020 by Margaret