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

 

M.0082
Two lovers and an old woman (Gracie's Album, p. 109)

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1851/1852
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1908.10E
Medium: pen, black ink, pencil and watercolour
Support: cream wove paper, within embossed lace filigree oval
Size: 2 1/2 x 3 7/8" (63 x 98 mm)
Signature: 'J.Whistler.'
Inscription: none

Two lovers and an old woman (Gracie's Album, p. 109)

Description

Two lovers and an old woman, Gracie's Album, p. 109, Freer Gallery of Art
Two lovers and an old woman, Gracie's Album, p. 109, Freer Gallery of Art

An interior, lit by a candle: two lovers in vaguely Elizabethan dress whisper together at right, while the chaperone sleeps in a high-back chair at left.

Last updated: 2nd March 2021 by Margaret