Liverdun from The French Set (K 16 II )

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Liverdun from The French Set (K 16 II )

Artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler American, 1834-1903

Date1858

DimensionsPlate: 4 1/8 × 6 1/16 in. (10.5 × 15.4 cm)
Sheet: 7 3/8 × 9 3/4 in. (18.7 × 24.8 cm)

MediumEtching

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. McKelvy, Jr.

Object number

1977.80

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Exhibition HistoryTMA, American Art in the Time of Homer, November 26, 2008 - January 25, 2009 TMA The Painter Was a Printmaker: June 23 - Sept. 9, 1984 TMA Recent Acquisitions, Prints, Photographs and Drawings : April 1979 Mar. - Apr.,1979 TMA, Whistler: Influences, Friends, and the Not-So-Friendly, Feb. 26 - May 30, 2010.Label TextIn 1858 Whistler traveled from Paris through Northern Europe. It was his hope to visit Amsterdam, but on this venture he was not well prepared and quickly ran out of funds. Nevertheless, the aborted trip inspired ten prints of rural genre scenes to compliment his early urban studies. Liverdun, France was one of the first stops that he made on his trip. The inspiration for this, and other prints of the period came, in part, from the works of the French artist Charles Émile Jacque (1813–1894; see prints by Jacque in this exhibition). Jacque was particularly adept at naturalism and his etchings of rural France were extremely popular in the mid-19th century. Liverdun was included in Whistler’s French Set of prints published in late 1858.