1880
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
The Bridge is a 1880 ink by James McNeill Whistler, a Impressionism work, depicting Grand Canal, held at National Gallery of Art.
The etching shows a dark bridge crossing a quiet river. Its lines feel loose, almost casual. The paper holds a soft grey tone that makes the shadows hum. Whistler loved night scenes like this. He called them “nocturnes,” like music at dusk. You can almost hear the river under the bridge. This exact print lives at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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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