The Embroidered Curtain, James McNeill Whistler, 1889

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The Embroidered Curtain, 1889, Etching and drypoint; sixth state of ten (Glasgow); printed in dark brown ink on fine ivory laid paper, Plate: 9 5/16 × 6 1/4 in. ( × cm), Prints, James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London), Whistler and his new wife Beatrice traveled to Amsterdam in late August 1889, intending a brief stay, but remained for two months. Seventeenth-century buildings on the Palmgracht, near the couple’s hotel, are here used to create a moody, densely patterned image that recalls the artist’s finest Venetian etchings and pays tribute to Rembrandt

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Size: 3632px × 5327px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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