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Nocturne: Black and Red–Back Canal, Holland
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
1882
- Medium
- Watercolor on paper
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- H x W: 22 x 28.4 cm (8 11/16 x 11 3/16 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
A night view of the facades of three houses facing the canal; two figures in a gondola at the right; signed with the butterfly at lower edge, to the left of center.
