# Pink Note–Shelling Peas, in Realism

James McNeill Whistler painted this in 1882-1884, aged about 48. It is now at the National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC.

From the museum's label:

> An open door at the back of a kitchen frames a woman sitting in a garden; signed with the butterfly at left, on tablecloth.

_Text from the National Museum of Asian Art._

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## The work

- Date: 1882-1884
- Medium: Watercolor on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 24.3 x 14.6 cm (9 9/16 x 5 3/4 in)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, F1902.166a-c
- 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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