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

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M.0158
Man playing a mandolin

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1853/1854
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Accession Number: 1970.121.66
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: beige wove paper laid down on card
Size: 2 3/8 x 2 1/16-2 1/8" (60 x 52-54 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Man playing a mandolin

Description

Man playing a mandolin, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Man playing a mandolin, Metropolitan Museum of Art

A half-length study of a man with neat beard and moustache, wearing a narrow-brimmed felt or straw hat, smoking a pipe and playing a mandolin.

Last updated: 13th March 2021 by Margaret