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

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Head of Teresa Cerutti

Technique

She left a description of Whistler's portrait technique: 'With me he began at once by drawing in the bust with a brush and sienna', drawing only the outline at the first sitting, and at the second making 'flat tones in sienna, in many shades'; however, she described the second portrait as 'unfinished'. 1

Conservation History

Unknown.

Frame

Unknown.

Notes:

1: Cerutti, Teresa, An Intimate View of James McNeill Whistler (t. s., n.d.), p. 18; mss pp. 10-12, copy in GUL.

Last updated: 3rd April 2020 by Margaret