Mairie, Loches |  Freer Gallery of Art (1889.7) | |
| Number: | 413 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 220 x 130 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 12 | |
| Catalogues: | K.382; M.382; W.259 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (12) | ||
KEYWORD
building, children, people, Renaissance architecture, street, streetscape, woman standing.
TITLE
There are many minor variations on the title, as follows:
'La mairie à Loches' (1890, Brussels). 1
'Mayoralty Building, Loches' (1893, Chicago). 2
'The Maireé. [sic] Loches' (1887/1888, Whistler). 3
'Mairie Loches' (1889, Whistler). 4
'The Mairie (Loches)' (1889, Exposition Universelle). 5
'Mairie, Loches' (1899, Frederick Wedmore (1844-1921)). 6
'Mairie The Loches' (1890/1891, Whistler). 7
'La Mairie. Loches' (1905, Paris). 8
'Mairie, Loches' is the preferred title, as recorded by Wedmore and based on Whistler's title (with added punctuation but without the combination of English and French language). The mairie is the town hall.
'La mairie à Loches' (1890, Brussels). 1
'Mayoralty Building, Loches' (1893, Chicago). 2
'The Maireé. [sic] Loches' (1887/1888, Whistler). 3
'Mairie Loches' (1889, Whistler). 4
'The Mairie (Loches)' (1889, Exposition Universelle). 5
'Mairie, Loches' (1899, Frederick Wedmore (1844-1921)). 6
'Mairie The Loches' (1890/1891, Whistler). 7
'La Mairie. Loches' (1905, Paris). 8
'Mairie, Loches' is the preferred title, as recorded by Wedmore and based on Whistler's title (with added punctuation but without the combination of English and French language). The mairie is the town hall.
1: Brussels 1890 (cat. no. 1051).
2: Chicago 1893 (cat. no. 2258 [1678]).
3: List, [1887/1888], GUW #13233.
4: List, 18 July 1889, GUW #13235.
5: Paris Exp. Univ. 1889 (cat. no. 419).
6: Wedmore 1899 (cat. no. 259).
7: List, [1890/1891], GUW #13236.
8: Paris Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 409).
DESCRIPTION
In the foreground two women and a small child walk towards the viewer along a narrow street, which curves to the right in front of a taller building with an elaborately decorated façade. Several women are standing in the arched doorway. On the first floor the louvred shutters of a window open into a dark interior where a lamp is visible. A small closed window is above this, and then a huge, many-paned window with a balcony, between pilasters that support a narrow cornice. Above this, another window with elaborate carved pillars, topped with a double cornice and sculptural details, juts out of the steep roof.
SITE
The town hall in the town of Loches, in the Loire valley, France.