Nocturne in Grey and Gold: Chelsea Snow
1876 · Oil on canvas · Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903)
- Year
- 1876
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 47 × 62.2 cm
- Collection
- Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge
- Movement
- Tonalism
A single dark figure trudges through a snowy street at night toward a house whose windows glow gold, the snow and the sky merging into one grey haze. Whistler painted the scene near his home in Chelsea, London, in 1876, using thin, liquid paint on a coarse canvas whose weave shows through. The only warm colour is the lamplight in the windows. It came to Harvard's Fogg Museum in 1943 with the bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A hushed grey-and-gold winter night for a bedroom, hallway or reading room in a dark wood frame. It suits charcoal, warm grey or deep green walls at 16×12 and pairs with Henri's Snow in New York.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Tonalism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1876)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- dramatic, moody
- Rooms
- bedroom, hallway or entryway, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×12. Prints at 16×12 in — 16×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid.
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — dark wood flatters the lighter palette; black sharpens it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
