1892
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Stéphane Mallarmé is a 1892 ink by James McNeill Whistler, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a seated man with a mustache and serious expression. His hands rest on his knees, and he wears a striped jacket. The drawing is loose and quick, with soft edges and no background details. The artist used a scratchy, textured style that feels almost like a hurried note. This kind of drawing is called lithography, where the image is drawn directly on a smooth stone. Try looking up lithography to see how this technique works.
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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