Composition

J. Whistler, Copy after Boucher's 'Diane au bain', repr. Pennell 1908

F. Boucher, Diane au bain, Musée du Louvre

Whistler's copy showed all of Boucher's composition and was in all essentials complete.

Technique

Whistler, Copy after Boucher's 'Diane au bain', repr. Pennell 1908

It appears to be a careful copy, painted without impasto, but the old photograph that is the only record of the painting is not clear enough to be certain of detail, or of colour.

Conservation History

Unknown.

Frame

Unknown.