James McNeill Whistler - Note in Pink and Brown 1880
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Note in Pink and Brown 1880
29x18cm charcoal, pastel, paper
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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From Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:
This drawing is one of the nearly one hundred pastels Whistler executed in Venice in 1879-80 on a commission to make etchings for the Fine Art Society, London. Whistler's Venetian pastels fall into two categories: piquant, sometimes raw, color impressions of city and harbor; and architectural vignettes, like this example, closely related to some of his etchings. The title of this picture is consonant with the musical vocabulary with which Whistler identified much of his work.