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    424 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)

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    313 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API

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Results for "The Whistlers"12 records

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Bearded Man in Soldier's Cap (from Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate) by James McNeill Whistler, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bearded Man in Soldier's Cap (from Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate)

James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)

1854–55 · Etching; proof impression of the only state (Glasgow 1); this is a fragment cut from the upper portion of "Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate" (Kennedy no. 1) by Whistler and mounted on a board with six other related fragments. Cited by Glasgow as the earliest known impression.

Cleared · Public Domain

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The Garden by James McNeill Whistler, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Garden

James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)

1879–80 · Print, etching and drypoint

Cleared · CC0

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Annie by James McNeill Whistler, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Annie

James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)

1858 · Etching, printed in black ink on fibrous ivory laid paper; sixth state of seven (Glasgow)

Cleared · Public Domain

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The Storm by James McNeill Whistler, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Storm

James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)

1861 · Print, drypoint

Cleared · CC0

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Annie by James McNeill Whistler, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Annie

James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)

1858 · Etching, printed in black ink on tan chine on off-white wove paper (chine collé); fourth state of seven (Glasgow)

Cleared · Public Domain

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The Old Rag Woman, No. 10 by James McNeill Whistler, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Old Rag Woman, No. 10

James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)

1858 · Print, etching with chine collé

Cleared · CC0

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Nocturne (Nocturne: The Thames at Battersea) by James McNeill Whistler, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Nocturne (Nocturne: The Thames at Battersea)

James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)

1878 · Lithotint with scraping on a prepared half-tint ground, printed in soft gray-black ink on pale blue laid chine mounted on ivory wove plate paper; second state of two (Chicago)

Cleared · Public Domain

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Beatrice by Odilon Redon, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Beatrice

Odilon Redon (d. 1916)

1897 · Print, color lithograph on China paper laid on wove paper

Cleared · CC0

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Lady in Gray by James McNeill Whistler, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lady in Gray

James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)

ca. 1883 · Watercolor and gouache on dark brown wove paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Portrait of a Woman by Edmond François Aman-Jean, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of a Woman

Edmond François Aman-Jean (d. 1936)

c. 1891 · Painting, oil on canvas

Cleared · CC0

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Arrangement in Black, No. 3: Sir Henry Irving as Philip II of Spain by James McNeill Whistler, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Arrangement in Black, No. 3: Sir Henry Irving as Philip II of Spain

James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)

1876, reworked 1885 · Oil on canvas

Cleared · Public Domain

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Japanese Woman Painting a Fan (recto); Standing Woman Holding Up Her Dress (verso) by James McNeill Whistler, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Japanese Woman Painting a Fan (recto); Standing Woman Holding Up Her Dress (verso)

James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)

c. 1872 · Drawing, black chalk and pastel

Cleared · CC0

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