Gold-House, Brussels, 1887

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

overall (trimmed to plate): 17.9 x 6.6 cm (7 1/16 x 2 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 336, only state

Accession Number

1943.3.8624

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right on tab: (butterfly monogram) imp.; lower left on verso: MK 30686

Provenance

(Knoedler & Co., New York.) Purchased October 29, 1928 by Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1931: Etchings, Lithographs, Original Drawings, and Autograph Letters by James A. McNeill Whistler, The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1931.

2000: Bruxelles carrefour de cultures, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, 2000, not reproduced in the exhibition catalogue.

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 360.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret F., Grischka Petri, Joanna Meacock.James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné. University of Glasgow on-line website at http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 336, only state.