Bravura in brown

Whistler, James McNeill (1834-1903)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1883-1884
Height:
21.8 cm  (8 9/16 in.)
Width:
17.6 cm  (6 15/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
watercolor on cream wove paper

    Item location

  • Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art
    Freer Gallery of Art[Museum inv. no.: F1902.167a-c]Gift of Charles Lang Freer.

Description

Depiction of a woman playing the piano.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Pianoforte [2299]

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 2

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.

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

RIdIM record id

3412