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An Orange Note: Sweet Shop — James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) — 1883 or 1884 — National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler) record ld1-1643390182193-1643390184806-0
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An Orange Note: Sweet Shop

James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · 1883 or 1884 · Oil on wood panel

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This is one of several paintings of shop fronts that Whistler completed while in St. Ives. Sympathetic critics singled it out for enthusiastic praise when Whistler exhibited it in London in 1884. One declared, it "is probably the most perfect little thing of its kind that was ever wrought by an artist who has learnt how to see….It is without detail, without apparent labour, without dramatic interest; but it is exquisite in colour, faultless in tone, and its well-considered mystery has, at least, the interest of suggestiveness."

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National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler)
Catalogue identifier
ld1-1643390182193-1643390184806-0
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Date
1883 or 1884
Medium
Oil on wood panel
Image dimensions
512 × 300 px
Credit lineAn Orange Note: Sweet Shop. 1883 or 1884. James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler), Gift of Charles Lang Freer. CC0.
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