Watercolor
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The Kitchen

James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

1858

Medium
Watercolor over and under graphite on paper
Classification
Paintings
Dimensions
H x W: 30.4 x 19.7 cm (11 15/16 x 7 3/4 in)
Culture
Americans
Museum
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Asian Art
Credit line
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Rights
CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

View at the Smithsonian Institution

About this work

Kitchen interior with female figure standing just beyond the stove, a doorway in the background.