Street at Saverne, One of the 'Twelve Etchings from Nature,' or the 'French Set' / James McNeill Whistler
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1954/1.326
- Title
- Street at Saverne, One of the 'Twelve Etchings from Nature,' or the 'French Set'
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1834-1903
- Medium and Support
- etching, printed in black ink on Japan paper, laid down on white wove plate paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1858
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
- Inscription
- On the plate, l.l.: Whistler
- Dimensions
- 26.6 cm x 19.5 cm (10 1/2 in. x 7 11/16 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Physical Description
- In this nighttime view down a street, buildings along the left-hand side of the street are shown in with sharp recession into space. A solitary figure is seen in the shadows on the left-hand side half way down the street. The sky is darkened with parallel horizontal hatching lines. The only source of light is a lantern on the wall of the right side of the street. Dark shadows fall across the buildings on the left side.
- Subject Matter
- "Street at Saverne" is one of the "French Set" etchings that is based on a watercolor executed during the walking trip that Whistler and Ernest Delannoy made in the summer of 1858. Night views, known as "Nocturnes", became one of Whistler's signature forms and dominate his views along the Thames during the 1870s as well as views in Venice and Amsterdam in the 1880s. The watercolor on which this etching is based is, in fact, a daytime view of Saverne; when making the print Whistler transformed this into a night view, thus becoming his first nocturne.
- Secondary Keywords
- architecture
- buildings and the land
- figures
- open spaces
- open spaces and site elements
- open spaces by function
- people and occupations
- roads
- roads by form
- streets
- streets by form
- transportation spaces
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 945 x 1299
- File Size
- 114 KB
- Record
- 1954/1.326
- Link to this Item
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"Street at Saverne, One of the 'Twelve Etchings from Nature,' or the 'French Set'; James McNeill Whistler." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1954-sl-1.326/1954_1.326.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 18, 2024.
