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Blue pastel night scene of a bridge over a river with a yellow moon at right and faint shoreline lights on brown paper.

Nocturne: Battersea Bridge

A night river scene in blue pastel over brown paper, showing a bridge crossing a pale blue river beneath a yellow moon at the right. A dark trestle-like structure of vertical and diagonal strokes rises at the center, with faint shoreline shapes and lights along the horizon.

Artist
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
Date
1872-1873
Medium
Pastel on brown paper
Source
Smithsonian (National Museum of Asian Art)
Size
4000 × 2676 px
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Public domain · Smithsonian (National Museum of Asian Art) releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1873).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)

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

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