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JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER. PIERROT

JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER. Pierrot. Artist: James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834-1903 London). Dimensions: Plate: 9 1/8 × 6 1/4 in. (23.1 × 15.9 cm) Sheet: 9 1/8 × 6 1/4 in. (23.1 × 15.9 cm). Date: 1889. In an old district of Amsterdam, Whistler represents two figures emerging from a shadowed workshop at the edge of a canal. Leaning against a slender post, a young man clad in an apron looks across the water as his female companion dips a cloth into it. The still, dark, reflective surface fills the foreground and doubles the forms, and the title, Pierrot, evokes a tragicomic commedia dell'arte character suggested by the pallor of the man's face. The print belongs to a set the artist made in Amsterdam during a two-month stay in early fall 1889, following his summer marriage to Beatrice Philip, the widow of architect Edward William Godwin.
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Author: James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
Title: PIERROT
Caption: Pierrot. Artist: James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834-1903 London). Dimensions: Plate: 9 1/8 × 6 1/4 in. (23.1 × 15.9 cm) Sheet: 9 1/8 × 6 1/4 in. (23.1 × 15.9 cm). Date: 1889. In an old district of Amsterdam, Whistler represents two figures emerging from a shadowed workshop at the edge of a canal. Leaning against a slender post, a young man clad in an apron looks across the water as his female companion dips a cloth into it. The still, dark, reflective surface fills the foreground and doubles the forms, and the title, Pierrot, evokes a tragicomic commedia dell'arte character suggested by the pallor of the man's face. The print belongs to a set the artist made in Amsterdam during a two-month stay in early fall 1889, following his summer marriage to Beatrice Philip, the widow of architect Edward William Godwin.
Technique/material: Etching and drypoint; sixth state of eight (Glasgow); printed in dark brown ink on medium weight ivory laid paper
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Credit: Album
Image size: 2875 × 4076 px | 33.5 MB
Print size: 24.3 × 34.5 cm | 1131.9 × 1604.7 in (300 dpi)
Keywords: DRAWINGS AND PRINTS • DRYPOINTS • ENGRAVED • ENGRAVING (ARTWORK) • ENGRAVING • ENGRAVING. • ENGRAVINGS • ETCHING AND DRYPOINT; SIXTH STATE OF EIGHT (GLASGOW); PRINTED IN DARK BROWN INK ON MEDIUM WEIGHT IVORY LAID PAPER • ETCHING • INK • INTAGLIO PRINTS • METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK, USA • NORTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA • PAPER • PRINT • PRINTS • UNITED STATES • WHISTLER, JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL