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JAMES A. M. WHISTLER Street at Saverne.
Etching printed in black on Chine collé, 1858. 208x158 mm; 8 1/8x6 1/4 inches, wide margins. Fourth state (of 5). From Twelve Etchings from Nature. A brilliant impression with all the fine details printing clearly.
This luminous, chiaroscuro filled etching made during a sketching trip to the Rhine in the summer of 1858 foreshadows Whistler's nocturnes of the 1870s and 1880s. Saverne is a town in northwestern Alsace, near Strasburg, where Whistler and his traveling companion, Parisian artist Ernest Delannoy, stopped during their treck to the Rhine valley. The etching is based on a watercolor of the same scene now in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
This is an early impression from the "French Set" printed in Paris on Chine collé and with the name of the printer, Delâtre, in the plate lower center. Kennedy 19
