Nocturne: Salute

1879/1880

James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint in brown on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (trimmed to plate): 15.3 x 22.7 cm (6 x 8 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.5.32

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    MacDonald 2012, no. 203, state viii/x

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Seaman. Stanhope Forbes [1857-1947]. (H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock no. a 91414). Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia; gift to NGA, 1949.  

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1969

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

2005

  • "Whistler - Music", Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia, 2005.

Bibliography

1910

  • Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 226, v/v.

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. 203, state viii/x.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: artist's monogram

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65076780

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