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

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YMSM 513
Vert et or: Le Raconteur

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1896/1900
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1905.235a-b
Medium: oil
Support: canvas
Size: 51.3 x 31.3 cm (20 1/4 x 12 3/8")
Signature: none
Inscription: none
Frame: Grau-style, 1890s

Vert et or: Le Raconteur

Vert et or: Le Raconteur dates from the late 1890s, between 1896 and 1900. 1

Vert et or: Le Raconteur, Freer Gallery of Art
Vert et or: Le Raconteur, Freer Gallery of Art

"Le Raconteur" / The boy with mischievous face - hand and thumb / Brother of the boy with cloak', was seen by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) in Whistler's studio in 1903. 2

Notes:

1: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 513)

2: List, [1903], Diaries, Bk 13, Freer Gallery Archives; GUW #13803.

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