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A Sketch at Dieppe, James McNeill Whistler, Public domain

A Sketch at Dieppe

James McNeill Whistler · etching and drypoint on laid paper

Public domain

Open Access image from the National Gallery of Art, marked free for any use.

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About this picture

A Sketch at Dieppe is a public-domain illustration by James McNeill Whistler. Etching and drypoint on laid paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.

“A Sketch at Dieppe” (date not listed) is meant to be read as a harmony of tone. Whistler often called such pictures arrangements or nocturnes rather than views of a place.

About the artist

James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) was an American artist working in London and Paris. He titled many pictures as arrangements or nocturnes, asking that they be seen as harmonies of tone, not only as portraits of a place.

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