Captain Cuttle (a Character from Charles Dickens's "Dombey and Son") (from Sketchbook)
Gift of Margaret C. Buell, Helen L. King, and Sybil A. Walk, 1970
Catalogue
- Year
- 1851
- Dimensions
- 1 5/8 x 2 3/16 in. (4.1 x 5.6 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler
Artist
Painting
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral allusion in painting and was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake".
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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Record
Verified by Watts Index- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler
- Year
- 1851
- Dimensions
- 1 5/8 x 2 3/16 in. (4.1 x 5.6 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1851-323712
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified