Cleveland Museum of Art

The Garden

James McNeill WhistlerLinkedCulture matchlcp-0aefef365bf7

Date: 1879–80
Medium: etching and drypoint
Culture: America
Department: Prints
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 105105

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Part of an expatriate community in Venice, James McNeill Whistler focused on the city’s architectural details in the prints, drawings, and paintings that he made during a year spent living there. This etching presents a private garden from the perspective of one of the city’s distinctive canals. Seen through an open doorway, the view, offers a voyeuristic glimpse of its inhabitants’ lives. Situated outside and looking into a lush garden, the viewer is placed in the artist’s position, able to feel his excitement as an outsider exploring a new but historied place. This print is among the only ones in James McNeill Whistler's Second Venice Set without a clearly identifiable setting.

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Credit line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph King
Provenance: ?-1923: Mr. and Mrs. Ralph King, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH | 1923-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Whistler's Printmaking Oeuvre
These prints represent the diverse printmaking techniques and subjects of James McNeill Whistler, the influential American expatriate artist who worked in etching, drypoint, and lithography across American and European l
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