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

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YMSM 367
Petite Bonne à la porte d'une auberge

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1887/1889
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: oil
Support: wood
Size: 215 x 126 mm (8 1/2 x 5")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Petite Bonne à la porte d'une auberge

Titles

Only one title is known:

  • 'Petite bonne a la porte d'une Auberge' (1905, ISSPG). 1
  • 'Petite Bonne à la porte d'une auberge' (1980, YMSM). 2

Description

Petite Bonne à la porte d'une auberge, Private collection
Petite Bonne à la porte d'une auberge, Private collection

A small figure study in vertical format, showing a young maid outside the door of an inn, facing the viewer. She has bare feet, and holds a brush in her right hand. She wears a scarf or bonnet over her hair, and a white apron over her kilted up skirts.

Site

The inn has not been identified, although it is assumed to have been in France.

Sitter

The little maid has not been identified.

Notes:

1: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 107).

2: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 367).

Last updated: 14th October 2020 by Margaret