Sunflowers, Rue des Beaux-Arts
James McNeill Whistler
1892/1893
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 21.8 x 27.9 cm (8 9/16 x 11 in.) sheet: 23.3 x 34.9 cm (9 3/16 x 13 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1972.39.1
About the Artist
James McNeill Whistler · 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...