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

 

YMSM 014
Copy after Greuze's 'La Cruche cassée'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1857
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number:
Medium: oil
Support: unknown
Size: unknown
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown
Frame: unknown

Copy after Greuze's 'La Cruche cassée'

Whistler's Copy after Greuze's 'La Cruche cassée' dates from 1857. 1

J. B. Greuze, La Cruche cassée, Louvre
J. B. Greuze, La Cruche cassée, Louvre

On 3 November 1857 Whistler was granted permission to copy La Cruche cassée by Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805) (oval, 108.5 x 86.5). 2

Notes:

1: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 14).

2: Louvre; Archives du Louvre, LL 22.

Last updated: 21st November 2019 by Margaret