Nocturne: Dance-house

Nocturne: Dance-house

Item Information

Title:
Nocturne: Dance-house
Title (alt.):
Nocturne: Dance house
Description:
The rays of a lantern at the center and lights from many windows above are reflected in the dark waters of a canal. There is no butterfly.
Artist:
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
Date:
[1889]
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). Lithographs, Etchings, and Drawings
Subjects:
Lanterns
Light
Places:
Netherlands > North Holland (province) > Amsterdam
Extent:
1 print : etching ; sheet 28 x 17 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076n996
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Notes:
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Alternative title from item.
Kennedy: K. 408
Notes (ownership):
From the J. Alden Weir Collection.
Notes (date):
Date supplied by cataloger.
This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):
Kennedy, Edward G. (Edward Guthrie). "The etched work of Whistler ; compiled, arranged and described by Edward G. Kennedy, with an introduction by Royal Cortissoz." Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1978, San Francisco.
Notes (object):
First state of two.
There are two figures in an upper window at the left; the rays of light from the lamp in the centre are smaller than in II (A. W. Scholle).
Identifier:
17_14_000220
W. 367 (no longer used)
Barcode:
36666000185781