The Long Gallery, Louvre
Medium
Transfer lithograph with stumping; only state (Chicago); printed in black ink on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 8 1/2 × 6 1/4 in. (21.6 × 15.9 cm) Sheet: 11 11/16 x 8 1/4 in. (29.7 x 21 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Albert Ten Eyck Gardner Collection, Gift of the Centennial Committee, 1970
Accession Number
1970.703.59
Tags
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...