The Velvet Dress, 1873

Not on View

Medium

drypoint on Asian laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 23.2 x 16.2 cm (9 1/8 x 6 3/8 in.)

sheet: 30.2 x 20 cm (11 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Kennedy 1910, no. 105, iv/v

Accession Number

1943.3.8464

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

(butterfly); by later hands: lower left on the recto: W.91; center on recto: The Velvet Dress; lower centre on the verso: No. 3; lower right on the verso: (C)94

Provenance

Sir John Day [1826-1908], London, (Lugt 526). (H. Wunderlich & Co., New York). Theodore de Witt (according to an inscription on the mat), (not in Lugt). Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

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

1994: James McNeill Whistler, Tate Gallery, London; Musée d'Orsay, Paris; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994-1995, no. 75.

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 105, iv/v.

1994: James McNeill Whistler. Exh. cat. Tate Gallery, London; Musée d'Orsay, Paris; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994-1995: no. 75.

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. 120, state v?/vii.