James McNeill Whistler, 1878 - Nocturne (Nocturne: The Thames at Battersea) - fine art print

This modern art artwork was created by the male artist James McNeill Whistler in 1878. The version of the painting measures the size: Image: 6 3/4 × 10 3/16 in (17,1 × 25,9 cm) Sheet: 13 1/2 × 19 5/16 in (34,3 × 49 cm) and was painted with the technique lithotint with scraping, on a prepared half-tint ground, second state of two (chicago), printed in soft gray-black ink on pale blue laid chine mounted on ivory wove plate paper. Nowadays, the artwork is included in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's art collection, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. This work of art, which is part of the public domain is provided with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917. Also, the artpiece has the creditline: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917. In addition to this, the alignment is landscape and has a ratio of 3 : 2, which means that the length is 50% longer than the width. The writer, illustrator, painter, etcher, lithographer James McNeill Whistler was a North American artist, whose art style can primarily be assigned to Symbolism. The Symbolist artist was born in 1834 in Lowell, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, United States and died at the age of 69 in the year 1903 in London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom.

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Born in New England, Whistler studied painting in Paris and then based himself in London. There he demonstrated that making prints could be as serious an artistic pursuit as painting. Representing the river Thames, then the lagoons of Venice, Whistler developed subtle tonal variations that alluded dreamily to a triumph of water and air over substance.In this early lithograph, Whistler worked directly on the stone (rather than using transfer paper), applying washes of ink to achieve striking atmospheric effects. The artist printed this river subject in 1878, the year in which his libel case against the art critic John Ruskin—involving Ruskin's attack on one of Whistler's painted "Nocturnes"—was heard. Though Whistler won the case, the court costs forced him to declare bankruptcy in the following year.