Variations in Pink and Grey: Chelsea
1871-1872
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 82 × 62.7 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-127684
Like the prints in Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, this painting records a scene from everyday life in a modern city. Perhaps inspired by the vantage point of his second-story window, Whistler adopted the bird's-eye perspective typical of Hiroshige prints, in which distant objects appear high in the composition. The artist's view in 1872 would have encompassed the construction of the…
Provenance
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Registry history
- 1871-1872 — Recorded in the collection of National Museum of Asian Art
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