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James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching in black on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Julius Garfinckel)

  • Dimensions

    plate: 15.24 × 22.54 cm (6 × 8 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 21.43 × 28.89 cm (8 7/16 × 11 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.426

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    MacDonald 2012, no. 64, only state


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Julius Garfinckel, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1938; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1952

  • Whistler, Hunter Gallery of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1952

1990

  • Haden, Whistler, Pennell: Three Master Printmakers in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1990, no. 28, repro

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; upper right corner in black ink by unknown hand: gs; lower right edge in graphite by unknown hand: 8623; upper left verso in black ink by unknown hand: gg; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: A95971; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: EH

Wikidata ID

Q77012974


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