1875
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
The Piano is a 1875 ink by James McNeill Whistler, a Impressionism work, depicting Sitting, held at National Gallery of Art.
The painting shows a woman sitting at a piano. She's playing music, but we can't see her face. This work is interesting because it shows a quiet moment, a personal scene, and the artist used simple lines to create it. The artist used drypoint on laid paper to make this print. This technique is simple, but it creates a lot of detail. You can learn more about drypoint by looking into the technique: chiaroscuro.
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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