An Orange Note: Sweet Shop
1883 or 1884
- Medium
- Oil on wood panel
- Dimensions
- 12.2 × 21.5 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-127341
This is one of several paintings of shop fronts that Whistler completed while in St. Ives. Sympathetic critics singled it out for enthusiastic praise when Whistler exhibited it in London in 1884. One declared, it "is probably the most perfect little thing of its kind that was ever wrought by an artist who has learnt how to see….It is without detail, without apparent labour, without dramatic inter…
Provenance
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Registry history
- 1883 or 1884 — Recorded in the collection of National Museum of Asian Art
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