The Little Venice
Medium
Etching, with drypoint cancellation, in dark brown ink on cream Japanese paper
Dimensions
Plate: 18.5 × 26.5 cm (7 5/16 × 10 7/16 in.); Sheet: 25 × 38 cm (9 7/8 × 15 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
191119
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...