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

 

M.0149
40 and 50

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1853/1854
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Accession Number: 1970.121.37
Medium: pencil, pen and brown ink
Support: buff wove paper laid down on card in an album
Size: 3 1/16" x 3 1/2" (77 x 89 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: ' "40 and 50" '

40 and 50

Description

40 and 50, Metropolitan Museum of Art
40 and 50, Metropolitan Museum of Art

A caricature of a seated couple facing front, the woman at left, neatly dressed, with curly hair, and the elderly man rather fat, holding forth, with his right arm raised.

Last updated: 13th March 2021 by Margaret