La Fruitière de la Rue de Grenelle
Medium
Transfer lithograph; only state (Chicago); printed in black ink on white machine made wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 9 1/16 × 6 1/8 in. (23 × 15.6 cm) Sheet: 11 1/4 x 8 3/4in. (28.6 x 22.2cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.3.214
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...