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Cocks and Hens, Hotel Colbert, James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903), Public domain

Cocks and Hens, Hotel Colbert

James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903) · 1891 · lithograph

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CC0 1.0 public-domain dedication by the Cleveland Museum of Art.

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About this picture

Cocks and Hens, Hotel Colbert is a CC0 illustration by James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903), dated 1891. Lithograph. The file comes from Cleveland Museum of Art.

“Cocks and Hens, Hotel Colbert” (1891) 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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