Soupe à Trois Sous (Soup for three sous [pennies])

1859

James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

James McNeill Whistler

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on Japanese laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 15.24 x 22.86 cm (6 x 9 in.)
    sheet: 20.16 x 30.48 cm (7 15/16 x 12 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.8431

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    MacDonald 2012, no. 64, only state

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock no. a 46684). Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia; gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.  

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1931

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

Bibliography

1910

  • Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 49.

2012

  • MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 64, only state. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk

Inscriptions

upper center in plate: Whistler; on recto by later hand: 71652 No 27Soupe à tris sous - très rare

Wikidata ID

Q65021848

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