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

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                    Riva, Venice, Cleveland Museum of Art
Riva, Venice, Cleveland Museum of Art

The lines are curiously tentative, broken, and unconvincing. This may be a very early sketch for a pastel, but it is not like Whistler's usual work. 1

Notes:

1: See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 734).

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