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1885, James McNeill Whistler, Flower Market: Dieppe [watercolor] -- National Museum of Asian Art (Washington)
From the museum label: French writer Émile Zola dubbed Les Halles "the belly of Paris." The complex consisted of a group of colossal glass and iron pavilions containing the city's central food market, eliminating crowded outdoor stalls. As such centralized commercial spaces took hold in Paris and London, Whistler turned instead to scenes of life in provincial towns. Painted in Normandy, Flower Market: Dieppe celebrated the delights of old-fashioned shopping through an exquisite orchestration of colors.
Link to other paintings from the exhibition Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change.
Link to other Whistler paintings.
1885, James McNeill Whistler, Flower Market: Dieppe [watercolor] -- National Museum of Asian Art (Washington)
From the museum label: French writer Émile Zola dubbed Les Halles "the belly of Paris." The complex consisted of a group of colossal glass and iron pavilions containing the city's central food market, eliminating crowded outdoor stalls. As such centralized commercial spaces took hold in Paris and London, Whistler turned instead to scenes of life in provincial towns. Painted in Normandy, Flower Market: Dieppe celebrated the delights of old-fashioned shopping through an exquisite orchestration of colors.
Link to other paintings from the exhibition Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change.
Link to other Whistler paintings.