Gatti's

Gatti's

1890·Transfer lithograph in black on ivory laid paper·Image: 17.3 × 13.3 cm (6 13/16 × 5 1/4 in.); Sheet: 36.7 × 24 cm (14 1/2 × 9 1/2 in.)

<p>Whistler’s interior subjects are mostly domestic scenes or workshops, but this print depicts a room in Gatti’s Restaurant on the Strand in London, which was near the offices of the artist’s lithographic printers, Thomas and T. R. Way. Convenient also to theaters and the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, Gatti’s served reasonably priced food and drink and was a more casual alternative to restaurants such as the Savoy, the Criterion, or the Café Royal in Piccadilly, where artists and writers including Whistler, Theodore Roussel, Walter Sickert, and Oscar Wilde frequently met and dined.</p>

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Year
1890
Dimensions
Image: 17.3 × 13.3 cm (6 13/16 × 5 1/4 in.); Sheet: 36.7 × 24 cm (14 1/2 × 9 1/2 in.)

Artist

James McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler

Painting

James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral allusion in painting and was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake".

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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Year
1890
Dimensions
Image: 17.3 × 13.3 cm (6 13/16 × 5 1/4 in.); Sheet: 36.7 × 24 cm (14 1/2 × 9 1/2 in.)
Watts ID
WW-1890-015417

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Source
aic
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Artist

James McNeill Whistler

James McNeill Whistler

Painting

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