Nocturne: Salute, 1879/1880

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint in brown on laid paper

Dimensions

overall (trimmed to plate): 15.3 x 22.7 cm (6 x 8 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 203, state viii/x

Accession Number

1949.5.32

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: artist's monogram

Provenance

Seaman. Stanhope Forbes [1857-1947]. (H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock no. a 91414). Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1969: The Prints of James McNeill Whistler, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Artmobile, 1969-1970.

2005: "Whistler - Music", Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia, 2005.

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 226, v/v.

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. 203, state viii/x.