Notre Dame, Bourges

Notre Dame, Bourges by James McNeill Whistler

Medium

Etching; only state (Glasgow); printed in black ink on fine ivory laid paper

Dimensions

Plate: 8 9/16 × 5 1/16 in. (21.7 × 12.8 cm) Sheet: 8 9/16 × 5 1/16 in. (21.7 × 12.8 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Miss Louise Veltin, 1941

Accession Number

41.124.3

Tags

Buildings

About the Artist

James McNeill Whistler · 18341903

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...

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