The Duet, No. 2

1894

James McNeill Whistler

Associated Names
James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

The image shows a sketch of two people seated next to each other with a musical instrument in front of them. They are both focused on the sheet music on the stand, leaning slightly forward. The sketch is monochromatic with a minimalist style, and the background includes sparse details of a room interior, with furniture lightly sketched around the central figures.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 21.9 × 17.8 cm (8 5/8 × 7 in.)
    sheet: 28.9 × 22.5 cm (11 3/8 × 8 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.8725

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Stratis & Tedeschi 1998, no. 96

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1931

  • Etchings, Lithographs, Original Drawings, and Autograph Letters by James A. McNeill Whistler, The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1931.

Bibliography

1896

  • Way, Thomas Robert. Mr. Whistler's Lithographs: The Catalogue. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1896; New York: H. Wunderlich & Co., 1905, no. 65.

1998

  • Stratis, Harriet K., and Martha Tedeschi, eds. The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, vol. 1. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998, pp. 301-303, no. 96.

Wikidata ID

Q65022146

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