Tour Saint Antoine, Loches |  Freer Gallery of Art (1889.9) | |
| Number: | 414 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 149 x 81 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 5 | |
| Catalogues: | K.392; M.389 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (5) | ||
KEYWORD
building, cart, clocktower, horse, people, Renaissance architecture, scaffolding, street, town, tower.
TITLE
There are only minor variations in the title, as follows:
'Tower St Antoine - Loches ' (1887/1888, Whistler). 1
'Tower St Antoine' (1889, Whistler). 2
'Tour St. Antoine, Loches' (1902, Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932)). 3
'Tour St. Antoine, Loches' (1909, Howard Mansfield (1849-1938)). 4
'Tour Saint Antoine, Loches' is the generally accepted title, replacing Whistler's original title, which is half French and half English.
'Tower St Antoine - Loches ' (1887/1888, Whistler). 1
'Tower St Antoine' (1889, Whistler). 2
'Tour St. Antoine, Loches' (1902, Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932)). 3
'Tour St. Antoine, Loches' (1909, Howard Mansfield (1849-1938)). 4
'Tour Saint Antoine, Loches' is the generally accepted title, replacing Whistler's original title, which is half French and half English.
DESCRIPTION
A clock-tower topped by a flag and surrounded by scaffolding rises behind the roofs of houses on a hill. In front is a street that bends to the left, bordered by two-storey houses with dormer windows. In the street are pedestrians, a chaise, a horse and cart, and in the foreground at right, a hand-barrow.
SITE
The Tour Saint Antoine is a Renaissance belfry, built between 1529 and 1575, and is 52 metres high. It serves as the town clock for Loches, a town on the river Loire, in the Indre-et-Loire department of central France. Armand Queroy, Vue de Loches, shows the Tour St Antoine, Loches without scaffolding. 5
5: British Museum 1870.0813.1016.