The Guitar Player (M.W. Ridley) / James McNeill Whistler
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- Accession Number
- 1993/2.4
- Title
- The Guitar Player (M.W. Ridley)
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1834-1903
- Medium and Support
- drypoint, printed in black ink on old laid paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1875
- 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
- Gift of the Friends of the Museum of Art on the Occasion of their Twenty-fifth Anniversary
- Inscription
- Signed on the plate, center right: butterfly Watermark: Arms of Amsterdam
- Dimensions
- 32.3 cm x 19.7 cm (12 11/16 in. x 7 3/4 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Physical Description
- A man with moustache and beard stands facing slightly towards the left, strumming a guitar.
- Subject Matter
- The painter Matthew White Ridley was a friend of Whistler's and posed for at least two of Whistler's etchings (the other being "The Storm"). Here the rich drypoint hatching is combined with artistic printing--the retention of films of ink employed in an expressive way--to increase the drama of the portrait. The plate tone is used to convey shadow on the right side of the figure--an updated form of chiarscuro.
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1864 x 2944
- File Size
- 748 KB
- Record
- 1993/2.4
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"The Guitar Player (M.W. Ridley); James McNeill Whistler." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1993-sl-2.4/1993_2_004.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.