Variations in flesh colour and green: The balcony

Whistler, James McNeill (1834-1903)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1864-1870
Height:
61.4 cm  (24 3/16 in.)
Width:
48.8 cm  (19 3/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on wood panel

    Item location

  • Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art
    Freer Gallery of Art[Museum inv. no.: F1892.23a-b]Gift of Charles Lang Freer.

Description

Woman playing shamisen on a balcony with three other women resting and listening near her. The four are in Japanese-style dress and there is a river scene in the background. Additions were made to the painting between 1870-1879.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Shamisen [3451]

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Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Teniswood-Harvey, Arabella. "Music and cross-cultural exchange in the art of Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and James McNeill Whistler", Music in art 38/1-2 (2013) 89-99. RILM 2013-8554.

RIdIM record id

3410