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Staircase panel by James McNeill Whistler — VisualArtsDB

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Staircase panel

Staircase panel

Staircase panel

James McNeill Whistler

1870

Medium: Oil paint and metal leaf on wood
Genre: Paintings
Museum: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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