Gretchen at Heidelberg |  Freer Gallery of Art (1898.226) | |
| Number: | 21 | |
| Date: | 1858 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 205 x 156 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler' at upper left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 4 | |
| Catalogues: | K.20; M.20; T.33; W.12 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (4) | ||
Gretchen at Heidelberg dates from 1858. It may have been drawn and etched during Whistler's etching tour of the Rhineland between 14 August and 7 October 1858, but was not published in the 'French Set' on his return to Paris.
Howard Mansfield wrote that it was etched on the journey into Germany in 1858. 1
Stylistically the etching dates from 1858 or 1859; it is drawn with great attention to detail but far less freely than the etchings of the 'French Set'.
Stylistically the etching dates from 1858 or 1859; it is drawn with great attention to detail but far less freely than the etchings of the 'French Set'.
1: Mansfield 1909 (cat. no. 20).