Red House, Paimpol

1893

James McNeill Whistler

Associated Names
James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

The image is a sketch of a three-story building with intricate architectural details, viewed from a street-level perspective. The building has a steeply pitched roof, timber-framed facade, and an array of windows. The focus is on the building itself, and the linework is delicate and sketch-like with a mix of fine and slightly broader strokes. The color palette is limited, primarily using a subdued reddish hue combined with black against a warm beige paper background. The sketch includes faintly drawn figures and outlines of adjacent structures, suggesting a street scene with minimal detail beyond the main building.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color lithograph on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Myron A. Hofer

  • Dimensions

    image: 22.7 × 16.2 cm (8 15/16 × 6 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 37.1 × 24.3 cm (14 5/8 × 9 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1947.10.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Stratis & Tedeschi 1998, no. 66, ii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1896

  • Way, Thomas Robert. Mr. Whistler's Lithographs: The Catalogue. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1896; New York: H. Wunderlich & Co., 1905, no. 100.

1998

  • Stratis, Harriet K., and Martha Tedeschi, eds. The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, vol. 1. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998, pp. 220-224, no. 66, ii/iii.

Wikidata ID

Q65076761

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