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Corte del Paradiso

A work made of pastel and black chalk on brown wove paper with fibrous inclusions.
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  • A work made of pastel and black chalk on brown wove paper with fibrous inclusions.

Date:

1880

Artist:

James McNeill Whistler
American, 1834-1903

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

James McNeill Whistler

Title

Corte del Paradiso

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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1880

Medium

Pastel and black chalk on brown wove paper with fibrous inclusions

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto, center left edge, in green pastel and black chalk: [artist's butterfly monogram]; lower right, along bottom, in black chalk: Corte del Paradiso (in Whistler's hand); lower left corner, in black chalk: No. 38 (in Whistler's hand); lower left, in graphite: 5 5/8 x 11 1/2

Dimensions

30.1 × 14.9 cm (11 7/8 × 5 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Walter Aitken, Margaret Day Blake, Harold Joachim Memorial, Celia and David Hilliard, Julius Lewis, and Sara R. Shorey endowments; Sandra L. Grung Fund; purchased with funds provided by William Vance and Pamela Kelley Armour; through prior acquisitions of Katherine Kuh

Reference Number

2002.679

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