The Violin Player
James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903) · c. 1890–94 · oil on canvas
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CC0 1.0 public-domain dedication by the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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About this picture
The Violin Player is a CC0 painting by James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903), dated c. 1890–94. Oil on canvas. The file comes from Cleveland Museum of Art.
“The Violin Player” (c. 1890–94) 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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