Quiet canal

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

A narrow canal, passing an open landing-place at the right, above which a tree spreads its branches, winds to the left, between high buildings. Beyond a prow, slightly indicated, two boats, in one of which a man is seated, lie close to the landing place. An empty boat lies by the wall of the nearest house at the right, and another alongside three posts on the opposite side of the canal. On the landing place, a woman bends over the scarcely indicated parapet, and a man stands beyond her. There is no butterfly.