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Traghetto, No. 2 - James McNeill Whistler
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Descrizione
A masterful etching from Whistler's Venice period, capturing a dark archway and a quiet social scene with delicate, atmospheric line work.
Traghetto, No. 2 is a significant work from the First Venice Set, a collection of twelve etchings produced by James McNeill Whistler during his stay in Venice between 1879 and 1880. Commissioned by the Fine Art Society in London, this period marked a recovery in the artist's career following his bankruptcy. The etching depicts a dark, cavernous archway leading to a sunlit courtyard, a common architectural feature in the Venetian urban fabric.
Whistler employs a sophisticated use of line to contrast the deep, impenetrable shadows of the tunnel with the bright, airy space beyond. The foreground features a group of figures seated at a table, rendered with economical, suggestive strokes that define their posture and presence without excessive detail. To the left, a woman holds a child, providing a sense of scale and domestic reality to the scene. The foliage hanging above the archway is captured with delicate, calligraphic marks, demonstrating the artist's mastery of the needle.
This work demonstrates Whistler's interest in the atmospheric qualities of light and shadow, rather than mere topographical accuracy. The composition relies on the interplay between the heavy, dark masses of the architecture and the lighter, more open areas of the paper. By leaving areas of the plate relatively clean, Whistler allows the texture of the paper to contribute to the overall visual effect. The print reflects the artist's focus on the everyday life of Venice, capturing quiet moments in the city's less-visited corners. It remains a primary example of his technical skill in printmaking, where the economy of means produces a sense of depth and mood. The work is held in several major collections, including the British Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago, where it is studied for its contribution to the nineteenth-century etching revival.
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Traghetto, No. 2 - James McNeill Whistler
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Fine Art Poster / A4 (21x29.7 cm) / -
Artist Biography
James Mcneill Whistler
Whistler was expelled from West Point for failing his chemistry exam. Asked to discuss silicon, he opened by calling it a gas. He later said: had silicon been a gas, I would have been a major general. He had accumulated demerits for keeping his hair longer than allowed and talking back to instructors. He appealed the expulsion all the way to the superintendent, Robert E. Lee. Lee declined.
He was born in 1834 in Lowell, Massachusetts. His father, a civil engineer, took the family to St Petersburg to advise on the railroad to Moscow. The young Whistler took drawing classes at the Imperial Academy of Sciences. After the West Point disaster, he briefly worked for the US Coast and Geodetic Survey, learning the etching techniques he would use for the rest of his career, then left for Paris. He never lived in America again.
The painting everyone knows as Whistler's Mother is actually called Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1. He named his works with musical terms (Nocturnes, Arrangements, Harmonies, Symphonies) to insist that painting was about tonal composition, not subject matter. The painting of his mother was about grey and black. That it also depicted his mother was, in principle, secondary.
In 1877, John Ruskin reviewed his Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket and wrote that he never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face. Whistler sued for libel. The case was heard over two days in November 1878. He won, and was awarded damages of one farthing, the least valuable coin in the realm. The legal costs bankrupted him.
He signed his work with a butterfly. It started as a monogram inspired by the potter's marks on Chinese ceramics he collected, gradually evolving into an abstract butterfly shape. Around 1880, he added a stinger to it, representing both the delicate and the combative sides of his personality. The Peacock Room, his masterpiece of decorative art, extended his obsession with total harmony from a single painting to an entire architectural space.
He was born in 1834 in Lowell, Massachusetts. His father, a civil engineer, took the family to St Petersburg to advise on the railroad to Moscow. The young Whistler took drawing classes at the Imperial Academy of Sciences. After the West Point disaster, he briefly worked for the US Coast and Geodetic Survey, learning the etching techniques he would use for the rest of his career, then left for Paris. He never lived in America again.
The painting everyone knows as Whistler's Mother is actually called Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1. He named his works with musical terms (Nocturnes, Arrangements, Harmonies, Symphonies) to insist that painting was about tonal composition, not subject matter. The painting of his mother was about grey and black. That it also depicted his mother was, in principle, secondary.
In 1877, John Ruskin reviewed his Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket and wrote that he never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face. Whistler sued for libel. The case was heard over two days in November 1878. He won, and was awarded damages of one farthing, the least valuable coin in the realm. The legal costs bankrupted him.
He signed his work with a butterfly. It started as a monogram inspired by the potter's marks on Chinese ceramics he collected, gradually evolving into an abstract butterfly shape. Around 1880, he added a stinger to it, representing both the delicate and the combative sides of his personality. The Peacock Room, his masterpiece of decorative art, extended his obsession with total harmony from a single painting to an entire architectural space.
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