Whistler, His Followers and His Brother-In-Law
The Artistic Circle and the Artists Influenced by Him
The Artistic Circle and the Artists Influenced by Him
- Whistler, La Vieille aux Loques
- Whistler, The Rag Gatherers
- Whistler, The Music Room
- Whistler, Drouet
- Whistler, Old Hungerford Bridge
- Whistler, Tatting
- Whistler, Old Putney Bridge
- Whistler, San Giorgio
- Whistler, The Bridge, Venice
- Whistler, Alderney Street
- Whistler, Regent's Quadrant
- Whistler, The Tyresmith
- Whistler, Grand Rue, Dieppe
- Whistler, Clockmaker's House
- Whistler, The Smith
- Whistler, Back of the Gaiety
- Haden, Mytton Hall
- Haden, A Water Meadow
- Haden, Shere Mill Pond
- Haden, Sunset in Ireland
- Haden, The Breaking Up of the Agamemnon
- Keene, Portrait Mrs. Heseltine
- Greaves, Portrait of a Woman
- Roussel, Chelsea Palaces
- Roussel, Chelsea Children
- Roussel, Portrait Miss Austin
- Roussel, A Study by Lamplight
- Roussel, House in Green Park
- Way, Sailing Ship
- Sickert, Mother and Daughter
- Sickert, Mon Bon Dodo
- Winslow, Boat-Building Yards
- Addams, Little Market Place
- Anderson, Market Passage
- Bacher, Castello Quarter, Riva
- Menpes, Little Bridge, Amsterdam
- Menpes, Old Wooden House
- Short, George's Dock
- Weir, Coon Alley
- Hassam, The Little Church
- Pennell, Butcher's Row
- Pennell, St. Paul's
- Pennell, London Bridge
- Pennell, Tyburn
- Marin, Meaux Cathedral
- Marin, Market Place
- McBey, Antwerp
- McBey, The Silk Dress
- Leheutre, La Rochelle
- Leheutre, La Passerelle
- Jones, Workshop
- Winkler, Clay Street Hill
- Winkler, Low Tide
- Winkler, La Marchande Endormie
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14. James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) The Clockmaker's House, Paimpol |
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The Clockmaker's House, Paimpol
Lithograph, 1893, 202 x 147 mm., Way 42; Levy 68; Spink/Chicago Art Institute 65, edition of 12.
A fine and rare impression on chine-appliqué with large margins, one of twelve printed by Way, and on the same paper and of the same size as the impression from the Palmer collection now in the Chicago Art Institute. The stone was later, posthumously, reprinted by Goulding. Whistler loved head-on views of house fronts. They not only provided varied textures and a play of light, but satisfied his Japonisme-inspired desire for a flat picture plane, allowing him to create depth by a strategically-placed figure or a tiny shadow. The Clockmaker's House reads as much like a two-dimensional pattern, dissolving at the edges, as it does a three-dimensional street scene, and the ambiguity gives the work its charm. Paimpol is a fishing village on the Gulf of St. Malo in Brittany.
