Nocturne: Blue and Silver--Battersea Reach

1870-1875

Current Collection

Washington, D.C., United States

Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 49.9 × 72.3 cm
Status: In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID: C24-127363

Following a suggestion by his patron Frederick Richards Leyland, Whistler used the musical term “Nocturne” to title more than thirty paintings of London after dark that he created in the 1870s. This one depicts barges moored to unload coal and other goods along the Chelsea docks; the chimneys and factories of Battersea appear in ghostly outline on the opposite shore. Whistler applied a brown unde…

Provenance

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Registry history

1870-1875 — Recorded in the collection of National Museum of Asian Art

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