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Nocturne: Amsterdam in Winter by James McNeill Whistler — VisualArtsDB

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Nocturne: Amsterdam in Winter

Nocturne: Amsterdam in Winter

Nocturne: Amsterdam in Winter

James McNeill Whistler

1880

Medium: Watercolor on paper
Genre: Paintings
Museum: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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Zinc whiteCerulean blueCrop marksIron oxide redArtBone blackCadmium sulfidemounting

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A nocturnal view of Amsterdam in winter with figures skating in the center and foreground, and a building and trees indicated in distance; signed with the butterfly at lower right.

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