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

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Nocturne en bleu et or

Technique

Unknown. The Chronique des arts et de la curiosité pointed out the ‘fluidité’ (meaning both fluidity and fluency) of the brushwork in the nocturnes. 1 Another art critic described them as ‘barely a scumble of colour and of imperceptible nuances’ (‘à peine un frottis de couleur et des nuances insaisissables’). 2

Conservation History

Unknown.

Frame

Unknown.

Notes:

1: Chronique des arts, 16 June 1888 [more].

2: La Société nouvelle, 16 June 1888 [more], at p. 561.

Last updated: 18th November 2019 by Margaret