# Nocturne: Black and Red–Back Canal, Holland

- By: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://asia.si.edu/object/F1902.159a-b/)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/57fc5e08c0922c595a29ce135d2a5c4f.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.