1861
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
The Miser is a 1861 ink by James McNeill Whistler, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a dim room with a small window letting in faint light. A hunched figure sits alone at a cluttered table, hands folded, staring down. The walls are plain, the floor strewn with scraps, and a lone candle sits unlit on the table. The artist used quick, sketchy lines to show the person’s tension and the room’s emptiness. This style was common in etchings of the time. Look up technique: drypoint next to see how artists like Whistler made 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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