The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

M.0320
Study for 'Variations in Flesh Colour and Green: The Balcony'

Study for 'Variations in Flesh Colour and Green: The Balcony'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1864/1872
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46011
Medium: watercolour and gouache
Support: buff wove paper
Size: 24 3/4 x 19 11/16" (628 x 500 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Date

Study for 'Variations in Flesh Colour and Green: The Balcony' is dated between 1864 and 1872.

Study for 'Variations in Flesh Colour and Green: The Balcony', The Hunterian
Study for 'Variations in Flesh Colour and Green: The Balcony', The Hunterian

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 320) where it was dated 1864/5.

Images

Study for 'Variations in Flesh Colour and Green: The Balcony', The Hunterian
Study for 'Variations in Flesh Colour and Green: The Balcony', The Hunterian

Variations in Flesh Colour and Green: The Balcony, Freer Gallery of Art
Variations in Flesh Colour and Green: The Balcony, Freer Gallery of Art

Sketch for 'The Balcony', The Hunterian
Sketch for 'The Balcony', The Hunterian

Subject

Description

Study for 'Variations in Flesh Colour and Green: The Balcony', The Hunterian
Study for 'Variations in Flesh Colour and Green: The Balcony', The Hunterian

Four draped female figures on a balcony looking across a river: from left to right, one is lying down, her left arm holding up a fan, a sake bottle and cup on a tray in front of her, the next standing, looking over the river to right, then two sitting, the first facing forward and the last, behind her at right, half visible, looking to front and her right. Blinds hang above them. Slag heaps and factory chimneys are seen on the far shore of the river. There is foliage in the foreground.

Site

The balcony of Whistler's house at Lindsey Row, looking over the Thames to Battersea.

Technique

Composition

Study for 'Variations in Flesh Colour and Green: The Balcony', The Hunterian
Study for 'Variations in Flesh Colour and Green: The Balcony', The Hunterian

Variations in Flesh Colour and Green: The Balcony, Freer Gallery of Art
Variations in Flesh Colour and Green: The Balcony, Freer Gallery of Art

Sketch for 'The Balcony', The Hunterian
Sketch for 'The Balcony', The Hunterian

This may be a study for, or an intermediate drawing related to, the composition of Variations in Flesh Colour and Green: The Balcony y056 and Sketch for 'The Balcony' y057.

Technique

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 320).

History

Provenance

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Bibliography

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