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Inscription

on plate: (butterfly); on tab: (butterfly) imp; lower centre on the verso: A Corner of the Palais Royal, [sic] Paris; lower right on the verso: Ex vx (in script, erased)

Provenance

Howard Mansfield [1849-1938], New York, (Lugt 1342); acquired by Harris Whittemore [1864-1927], Naugatuck, CT, 1919; (his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 18 January 1949, lot 295); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia, PA); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA, 1949; gift to the NGA, 1949.



Bibliography

1910
Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 248, ii/ii.
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. 258, state iii/iii.

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