The beggars

Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 · [1879–1880]

A dark passageway, roofed with beams, leads to a sunlit street, across which a house shows a doorway and two windows and a balcony. Above the opening in front, there hangs a large lantern. Within the passageway, at the right, two figures are standing by the wall, and farther along a man is walking away; on the left, at the street opening, are two women carrying baskets suspended from poles balanced on their shoulders. Across the street a man is walking towards the left.