Café Corazza, Paris / James McNeill Whistler
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1954/1.409
- Title
- Café Corazza, Paris
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1834-1903
- Medium and Support
- etching, printed in black ink on laid Japan tissue, trimmed to platemark
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1892-1893
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
- Dimensions
- 13.1 cm x 22 cm (5 3/16 in. x 8 11/16 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Primary Object Type
- intaglio print
- Physical Description
- Three arched openings (windows flanking a central door) are obscured by the trunks and foliage of two slender trees positioned in front of the building. Neither the tree trunks nor the building facade are drawn completely down to the ground.
- Subject Matter
- Whistler focused on lithography over etching during the 1890s, making his etched views of Paris, that were never printed in editions, quite rare.
- Here, Whistler draws a partial representation of a cafe at the Palais Royal. The details of the building and the sense of recession into space are essentiall cancelled by the slender trees that obscure the view. As if directly evoking the "Floating World" of Japanese prints, the elements are not drawn to the ground level, leaving them detached and unanchored within the composition. A further reference to Asian art is the way the trunks divide the scene, much like a folding screen.
- Secondary Keywords
- scale
- architectural elements
- architecture
- buildings and the land
- cityscapes
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- landscapes (environments)
- natural landscapes
- openings (architectural elements)
- openings and opening components
- openings by form
- plants
- settlements
- settlements and landscapes
- settlements by form
- the natural world
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- woody plants
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1455 x 897
- File Size
- 137 KB
- Record
- 1954/1.409
- Link to this Item
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"Café Corazza, Paris; James McNeill Whistler." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1954-sl-1.409/1954_1.409.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 18, 2024.
