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Whistler inscription and butterfly formerly on mat of Rembrandt's Clement de Jonghe, James McNeill Whistler, Public domain

Whistler inscription and butterfly formerly on mat of Rembrandt's Clement de Jonghe

James McNeill Whistler · n.d. · Graphite on cream card

Public domain

Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.

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About this picture

Whistler inscription and butterfly formerly on mat of Rembrandt's Clement de Jonghe is a public-domain drawing by James McNeill Whistler, dated n.d.. Graphite on cream card. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.

“Whistler inscription and butterfly formerly on mat of Rembrandt's Clement de Jonghe” (n.d.) is meant to be read as a harmony of tone. Whistler often called such pictures arrangements or nocturnes rather than views of a place.

About the artist

James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) was an American artist working in London and Paris. He titled many pictures as arrangements or nocturnes, asking that they be seen as harmonies of tone, not only as portraits of a place.

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