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Description: | Unmounted (1) s. in stone with butterfly; b.c.
(2) s. in pencil with butterfly; b.l.
(3) stamp; v. square stamp of Miss Rosalind Birnie Philip CRE WHISTLER, James McNeill; (American; 1834-1903) PRINT WAY, Thomas Robert; (English; 1861-1913) According to Thomas Way, Whistler drew this nocturnal scene of people gathered at an outdoor café in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris. Whistler?s command of the lithographic crayon has allowed him to successfully render the effect of artificial illumination at night by using an alternating pattern of light and dark. Whistler was pleased with the finished image and in a letter to Way in August, 1894, Whistler asked him if he did not also find the image "fine and very simple and direct?". This lithograph was printed by Thomas Way. (See GLAHA 49074/49346-49349/49584/49669/49772-49775/49848).
Birnie Philip Bequest, 1958. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | BOIS DE BOULOGNE : CAFE CHANTANT : WHISTLER CENTENARY : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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