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

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Green and Violet: The Evening Walk, Dieppe

Technique


                    Green and Violet: The Evening Walk, Dieppe, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Green and Violet: The Evening Walk, Dieppe, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

It is painted thinly and fluidly on a grey primed panel. The horizontal wood of the fence has been scraped out with a knife or the end of the brush. The figures are painted with a small brush and thicker, more creamy paint, each stroke being clearly differentiated.

Whistler occasionally used a palette knife for painting (or mixing paint) at this time, as noted in the diary of George Aloysius Lucas (1824-1909) on 18 September, after Whistler had spent a day with him: 'At Pottiers and left Whistler palette knife to mail to Dieppe.' 1

Conservation History


                    Green and Violet: The Evening Walk, Dieppe, photograph, ca 1930
Green and Violet: The Evening Walk, Dieppe, photograph, ca 1930

An early photograph shows some abrasion along the lower edge, but otherwise the painting was, and is, in good condition.

Frame

Size of painting framed, 10 × 13 3/4 × 1 ½".

Notes:

1: Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore; quoted by Randall 1979 [more] , p. 615.

Last updated: 13th November 2020 by Margaret