Venice
James McNeill Whistler
1879/1880
Medium
etching with gray wash on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 20 x 29.5 cm (7 7/8 x 11 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Julius L. and Anita Zelman Fund
Accession Number
1984.14.1
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...