We look slightly down at a woman with pale skin and two men with ruddy complexions sitting at a table near a railing overlooking a boat-clogged waterway in this horizontal painting. Only the corner of the table is visible in the lower right corner of the canvas. The woman sits next to one man on the far side of the table, and the third person leans onto the table from our right, along the edge of the composition. The table is covered with a dark, ruby-red, floral cloth. The red-haired woman wears a dark green dress and leans back, extending her right arm along the railing. Her back is to the…
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Wapping

James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834 - 1903)

1860-1864

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 72 x 101.8 cm (28 3/8 x 40 1/16 in.) ; framed: 92.1 x 123.5 x 7.6 cm (36 1/4 x 48 5/8 x 3 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
John Hay Whitney Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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