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

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YMSM 524
Blue and Silver: Boat Entering Pourville

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1904.162a-b
Medium: oil
Support: wood
Size: 141 x 234 mm (5 1/2 x 9 1/4")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Blue and Silver: Boat Entering Pourville

Blue and Silver: Boat Entering Pourville was probably painted in 1899.

Blue and Silver: Boat Entering Pourville, Freer Gallery of Art
Blue and Silver: Boat Entering Pourville, Freer Gallery of Art

It probably dates from Whistler's visit to the French coast between July and September 1899. 1

Notes:

1: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 524).

Last updated: 13th November 2020 by Margaret