Description:
from "Twelve Etchings from Nature" series
Label Text:
Whistler published Douze eaux-fortes d’après nature (Twelve Etchings from Nature), known as the French Set, at the time that the French Barbizon artists were exploring etching, and scholars in the emerging field of art history were reappraising seventeenth-century Dutch art. Both groups paid particular attention to Rembrandt, the adopted patriarch of a growing number of nineteenth-century painter-etchers. Whistler’s subject—an elderly laborer seen in profile—recalls seventeenth-century examples, yet his method was innovative. The physicality of the etching process is evident in the finished image: dark areas full of deeply-bitten scratches are framed by an open, richly-textured area corroded by acid.
KG, How He Was to His Talents exhibition, March 24, 2011-August 7, 2011
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