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

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YMSM 427
Study of a Head

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1885/1895
Collection: Columbus Museum of Art, OH
Accession Number: 1957.061.047
Medium: oil
Support: canvas
Size: 57.5 x 36.8 cm (22 5/8 x 14 1/2")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Study of a Head

Technique

Study of a Head, Columbus Museum of Art
Study of a Head, Columbus Museum of Art

It is painted on coarse canvas, the paint applied thinly, with diagonal strokes of the brush around the face, and thicker impasto on the moustache and collar.

Conservation History

Study of a Head, Columbus Museum of Art
Study of a Head, Columbus Museum of Art
Study of a Head, photograph, 1940
Study of a Head, photograph, 1940

Unknown. An early photograph shows no radical difference.

Frame

Unknown.

Last updated: 22nd October 2020 by Margaret