Little Venice (The Little Venice)
Medium
Etching; second state of two (Glasgow); printed in brownish-black ink on medium weight ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 7 3/16 × 10 5/16 in. (18.3 × 26.2 cm) Sheet: 7 1/4 × 10 3/8 in. (18.4 × 26.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1967
Accession Number
67.630.55
Tags
About the Artist
James McNeill Whistler|The Fine Art Society, London · 1834–1903
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was an American-born painter and printmaker who became a leading figure in the Aesthetic Movement and pioneer of Tonalism and Japonisme. He revolutionized art by championing "art for art's sake" and treating paintings as visual equivalents of musical compositions, titling works as "arrangements," "harmonies," and "nocturnes" to emphasize formal qualities o...