1891
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Hôtel Colbert, Windows is a 1891 ink by James McNeill Whistler, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows rough, quick lines of a building’s windows and a tall column. The top row has three window frames—two empty, one with faint figures inside. Below, a single column stands on a base, drawn in loose strokes. The paper is light, almost beige, with smudges from the pencil or pen. The artist focused on shapes and shadows, not details. The windows look like they’re part of an old hotel, but the drawing feels more like a study than a finished work. If you like this sketchy style, look up lithography to see how artists print images like this.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom.
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