Night Effect III
artist
Anders Zorn
(Mora, 1860 - 1920, Mora)
Date1897
Place MadeSweden, Europe
MediumEtching on heavyweight laid paper
DimensionsAdditional Dimension (framed): 20 7/8 x 30 7/16 in. (53 x 77.3 cm)
40 x 29.7 cm (15 3/4 x 11 11/16 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number4.1.r.144
eMuseum ID729419
Original Number4.2.o.147
EmbARK ObjectID14078
TMS Source ID2906
Last Updated10/3/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryThis image of a Parisian streetwalker is unique in Zorn’s work. Unsteady on her feet, she clings to a convenient tree for support, her expression a mixture of seduction and disgust. She is an impressive figure on the boulevards of nocturnal Paris, recognizable as a prostitute to contemporaries. Zorn monumentalized the woman by placing her frontally in full figure in the foreground, and by choosing a vertical format as well as a low viewpoint.
Source: Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America, special exhibition on view in the museum's Hostetter Gallery, February 28 – May, 2013.
Source: Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America, special exhibition on view in the museum's Hostetter Gallery, February 28 – May, 2013.
BibliographyNotesSven Lidbeck, Anders Zorn Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Helsinki, 2007), p. 148, ZG111.
Oliver Tostmann et al. Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2013), p. 148, no. 6d.
Ellen Promise, "Conserving the Works on Paper of the Short Gallery," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 5 April 2022, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/conserving-works-paper-short-gallery
Oliver Tostmann et al. Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2013), p. 148, no. 6d.
Ellen Promise, "Conserving the Works on Paper of the Short Gallery," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 5 April 2022, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/conserving-works-paper-short-gallery
MarksNotesSigned and dated on plate (lower left): Zorn 1897
Signed in graphite (lower margin): Zorn
Numbered in graphite (lower right corner): 149
Numbered in graphite (lower left corner): A.111
Signed in graphite (lower margin): Zorn
Numbered in graphite (lower right corner): 149
Numbered in graphite (lower left corner): A.111
ProvenanceNotesEntered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date.
