An Orange Note: Sweet Shop

A small oil painting on wood panel shows a grey-olive street facade with a shop window filled with bottles and glowing orange fruit. At right, two figures stand in a dark doorway, and a girl in a pale dress and wide-brimmed hat stands on the pavement.

Artist

James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

Date

1883 or 1884

Medium

Oil on wood panel

Source

Smithsonian (National Museum of Asian Art)

Size

4000 × 2345 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Asian Art