Mairie, Loches
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Description:
Dark brown ink drypoint etching on paper depicting various people walking along the narrow street in front of town hall in Loches, France. Whistler completed this etching, along with several others, during his honeymoon and referred to the series as the "Renaissance Set."
Gift of Archer and Anna Huntington, 1932.
- Title: Mairie, Loches
- Creator: Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
- Date: c. 1888
- Signature: butterfly monogram with "imp"
- Signature Location: lower left tab in graphite
- Culture: American
- School: Post-Impressionism
- Dimensions: H-8.5 W-5 inches
- Makers Mark: in plate: upper right, butterfly monogram
- Collection: Works on Paper Collection
- Object Name: Etchings
- Other Name: Work on Paper
- Object Id: AZ 139
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