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James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint on Japanese paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 19.69 x 13.34 cm (7 3/4 x 5 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 25.4 x 16.51 cm (10 x 6 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.8458

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Kennedy 1910, no. 92, iia/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b-c); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1931

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

1945

  • Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN, 1945, no. 96.

1959

  • Courbet's Contemporaries in Prints and Drawings. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1959-1960.

1969

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

Bibliography

1910

  • Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 92, iia/iii.

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. 93, state iv/vi.

Inscriptions

on plate lower left: Whistler. / 63.

Wikidata ID

Q65021875

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