Steps, Amsterdam

Steps, Amsterdam

Item Information

Title:
Steps, Amsterdam
Description:
Across a pavement supported by a bulkhead bordering a canal, a broad flight of steps leads to three adjoining doorways, between large square windows, in a wide house. In the story above, two smaller square windows flank a narrow window of four panes. On each side of the steps is a doorway opening upon the pavement. Clothes are hung in front of the lower window at the left and the upper window at the right. A girl with her back turned is standing in front of the steps, and a woman with a child in her arms at the foot of the steps, and there are people in all but one of the doorways. There are extensive reflections in the canal. The butterfly, shaded, is between the narrow window and the upper window at the left.
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:
Doors & doorways
Stairways
Places:
Netherlands > North Holland (province) > Amsterdam
Extent:
1 print : etching ; sheet 25 x 17 cm
Permalink:
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Terms of Use:
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Notes:
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Kennedy: K. 403
Handwritten on item: Marked by Whistler "No. 3" at the back.
Notes (ownership):
From the W. S. Carter and H. H. Benedict Collections.
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):
The steps are finished; there is additional shading in the water and in all the doorways; the legs and back of the little girl facing the steps are cross-hatched, and the head and body of the woman standing on the top of the steps are drawn in (H. H. Benedict).
Identifier:
17_14_000217
W. 365 (no longer used)
Barcode:
36666000185740