The Terrace, Luxembourg

1894

James McNeill Whistler

Associated Names
James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

The image shows a sketch featuring several figures, with the lower parts of their bodies visible. Some figures are sitting while others are standing. The seated figures seem to be sitting on chairs and are likely women wearing long dresses and hats with brims. The standing figure to the right is in a side profile, also wearing a long dress and a hat, with another small figure nearby. The figures are not detailed, consistent with the sketch's minimalist style. They are dressed in attire indicative of an earlier era. Surrounding the figures is a railing or balcony, with a large decorative vase holding plants or flowers. In the background, there is a faint outline hinting at a large building or structure with sketched tree branches extending above the people in the foreground. The composition is a pencil drawing on a plain background, with a light and airy feel.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 10 × 21.6 cm (3 15/16 × 8 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 18.9 × 23.9 cm (7 7/16 × 9 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.8715

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Stratis & Tedeschi 1998, no. 87


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1931

  • Etchings, Lithographs, Original Drawings, and Autograph Letters by James A. McNeill Whistler, The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1931.

Bibliography

1896

  • Way, Thomas Robert. Mr. Whistler's Lithographs: The Catalogue. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1896; New York: H. Wunderlich & Co., 1905, no. 55.

1998

  • Stratis, Harriet K., and Martha Tedeschi, eds. The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, vol. 1. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998, pp. 272-273, no. 87.

Wikidata ID

Q65022135

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