# The Yellow Room, in The 19th century

James McNeill Whistler painted this in about 1883–84, aged about 44. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> A woman appears in a small interior washed with warm yellow, near a fireplace, in this watercolour and gouache of the early 1880s. Yellow was a favourite colour of Whistler’s for interiors, and in 1883 he decorated a London exhibition of his own etchings entirely in yellow and white.

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## The work

- Date: ca. 1883–84
- Medium: Watercolor and gouache on paperboard
- Dimensions: 9 3/4 × 7 in. (24.8 × 17.8 cm)
- Type: Watercolor
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017.664
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[James McNeill Whistler](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/james-mcneill-whistler), American, 1834–1903

Whistler spent part of his boyhood in Russia, left West Point without graduating and trained as a painter in Paris before settling in London in 1859.

19 works in the collection.

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