# Variations in Violet and Grey—Market Place, Dieppe, in Realism

James McNeill Whistler painted this in 1885, aged 51. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> A market square in the Normandy port of Dieppe is laid in with fluid washes of watercolour and gouache in violet and grey, figures and stalls suggested rather than described.

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## The work

- Date: 1885
- Medium: Gouache and watercolor on off-white wove paper, mounted on academy board
- Dimensions: 7 15/16 x 5 in. (20.2 x 12.7 cm)
- Type: Watercolor
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000.512
- 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.

## Walk on

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