The Thames in Ice
1860
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 74.6 × 55.3 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-126053
After Whistler moved from Paris to London in 1859, he found the river Thames to be a constant source of inspiration. Originally titled “The Twenty-fifth of December 1860. On the Thames,” this picture records a particular moment during a bitterly cold winter, when the river was frozen for more than fourteen weeks. Although he likely retouched the work later in the decade, Whistler claimed to have …
Provenance
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Registry history
- 1860 — Recorded in the collection of National Museum of Asian Art
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