Bucking Horse

Not on View

Medium

etching in brown on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 8.3 x 18.3 cm (3 1/4 x 7 3/16 in.)

sheet: 10.1 x 20.1 cm (4 x 7 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of John Nichols Estabrook and Dorothy Coogan Estabrook

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 295, state ii/iii

Accession Number

1987.41.74

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right butterfly signature in graphite below plate mark; lower left in plate butterfly signature; lower left verso in graphite: a45960 / R10447

Provenance

(H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock no. a 45960). Given by John Nichols Estabrook and Dorothy Coogan Estabrook to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1987.

Associated Names

Estabrook, John Nichols, Estate of

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 315.

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. 295, state ii/iii.