High Street, Brussels

High Street, Brussels

Item Information

Title:
High Street, Brussels
Description:
On the street, before a building with a large shop window in the center and two doorways on either side, many people are gathered. Standing at the left is a man with a market-barrow. From two of three windows above, people are looking out. The butterfly, in outline, is at the left of the central upper window.
Artist:
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
Date:
[1887]
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). Lithographs, Etchings, and Drawings
Subjects:
Doors & doorways
Crowds
Places:
Belgium > Brussels-Capital Region (region) > Brussels
Extent:
1 print : etching ; sheet 13 x 18 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076p13t
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Notes:
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Kennedy: K. 358
Additional information accompanying item: The Rue Haute, or Hoogstraat, is in the Quartier des Marolles.
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):
Second state of two.
The four doorways are closely shaded, and there are lines around the children in the cart. There is new work on the large window (H. Mansfield).
Identifier:
17_14_000213
W. 293 (no longer used)
Barcode:
36666000189007