Entré sur la Grande Promenade à Baden
Classification
Drawing
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Accession Number
F1898.171
Tags
American ArtCharles Lang Freer collectionUnited Statesman
About this artwork
In mid-August 1858, Whistler left Paris on a sketching trip to Alsace-Lorraine and the Rhine, carrying pencils, watercolors, sketchbooks, etching needles, and copper etching plates in a knapsack on his back. He was accompanied by a young French artist named Ernest Delannoy. This comic sketch shows the artists arriving in the fashionable resort town of Baden-Baden, where their rough clothes and bohemian airs disrupted the idyll of bourgeois self-satisfaction. The drawing is on a double sheet of p...