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Vase with slightly bulging body by James McNeill Whistler — VisualArtsDB

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Vase with slightly bulging body

Vase with slightly bulging body

Vase with slightly bulging body

James McNeill Whistler

1870

Medium: Pencil, pen, dark brown ink and wash on cream wove paper
Genre: Drawings
Museum: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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American ArtArtCharles Lang Freer collection

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Signatures: the Butterfly, at lower left and at base.

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