Portrait of Whistler
1916
Medium
Etching in black on cream wove paper
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
160075
Art Historical Context
In the Prints and Drawings department of the Art Institute of Chicago, Jacques Reich's *Portrait of Whistler*1916) captures the essence of a celebrated figure through the delicate art of etching. Created on cream wove paper with intricate black lines, this work exemplifies early 20th-century print, a technique where acid etches designs into a metal plate for precise, tonal depth and expressive detail. Reich, a skilled etcher known for his portraits of artists and intellectuals, renders Whistler—likely the iconic James McNeill Whistler—with a focus on character and subtlety, evoking the subject...