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

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Mother and Child

Technique


                    Mother and Child, Colby College Museum of Art
Mother and Child, Colby College Museum of Art

Short, curved and sometimes multiple lines outline the figures, and widely spaced broken lines, the statuary. The pastels are smoothed in over the flesh, and applied in bright strokes of colour to the folds.

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