At the piano

Whistler, James McNeill (1834-1903)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1858-1859
Height:
67.0 cm  (26 3/8 in.)
Width:
90.5 cm  (35 5/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas
Place of creation:
London (England)

    Item location

  • Taft Museum of Art
    [Museum inv. no.: 1962.7]

Description

Woman in black playing a grand piano while young girl in white stands, in curve of the instrument, listening; violin case and violoncello case visible under the piano; unidentifiable framed paintings on the back wall.

People as subjects

Haden, Deborah Delano (1825-1908)
Haden, Annie Harriet (1848-1937)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Grand pianoforte [2284]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret MacDonald, and Robyn Spencer. The paintings of James McNeill Whistler (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1980) I, 8-9; II, pl. 22.

Teniswood-Harvey, Arabella. Colour-music: Musical modelling in James McNeill Whistler's art (Ph.D. diss., University of Tasmania, 2006).

RIdIM record id

2382