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James McNeill Whistler
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Medium

Etching; early state (before addition of artist's signature lower left center)

Dimensions

plate: 5 1/8 x 7 3/4 in. (13 x 19.7 cm) sheet: 12 3/16 x 8 1/2 in. (31 x 21.6 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Amy and Emma Welcher and Alice Welcher Erickson, 1967

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About James McNeill Whistler

1834–1903United States

James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was an American-born painter and printmaker who spent most of his career in Europe, becoming a leading figure in the Aesthetic Movement and a pioneer of both Tonalism and Japonisme. He fundamentally challenged Victorian artistic conventions by championing "art for art's sake" and treating paintings as visual equivalents of musical compositions.