1888
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Hotel de Ville, Loches is a 1888 ink by James McNeill Whistler, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a busy town square with a tall, detailed building at the center. The building has steep roofs, arched windows, and a clock tower. People walk around, some on horseback, while others stand in groups. Trees and smaller structures fill the rest of the scene. The artist used fine lines to capture every brick and shadow. This is a print, not a painting, made by scratching into metal plates. Next, look up etching to see how artists create prints 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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