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Figures by a fountain
From the collection of National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler). Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
The central focus of this pencil sketch is a fountain, perhaps one of the old stone and metal public fountains from the Rhine region. Such fountains were often located in town squares. The two figures at the right are remarkably stiff, and the drawing has an unresolved quality.
National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler)’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineFigures by a fountain. 1858. James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler), Gift of Charles Lang Freer. CC0.
