Grand' Place, Brussels
Medium
Etching and drypoint with foul biting in black ink on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image, trimmed within platemark: 22.1 × 14.2 cm (8 3/4 × 5 5/8 in.); Sheet: 22.4 × 14.2 cm (8 7/8 × 5 5/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
19940
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...