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The Yellow Room, ca. 1883–84. Watercolor and gouache on paperboard.
Watercolor and gouache on paperboard · 9 3/4 × 7 in. (24.8 × 17.8 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- The Yellow Room
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London)
- Date
- ca. 1883–84
- Medium
- Watercolor and gouache on paperboard
- Dimensions
- 9 3/4 × 7 in. (24.8 × 17.8 cm)
- Credit line
- Marguerite and Frank A. Cosgrove Jr. Fund, 2017
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1834–1903
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.