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The fashionable and controversial expatriate painter James McNeill Whistler was also a virtuoso and prolific printmaker. Among the most celebrated of his prints are two sets of intimate and atmospheric etchings from his Venetian sojourn of 1879–80. Etched on one of the largest copper plates that Whistler brought with him from London, this view of the small Renaissance Palazzo Gussoni was made from a boat on the Rio de la Fava, east of the Rialto Bridge. Barely glimpsed through the dark doorway, a caner’s stock of chairs hangs from the ceiling, forming a shadowy pattern that is a variation on the grid of squares in the central grating.

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