Nocturne, 1879/1880

Not on View

series Title

Venice, A Series of Twelve Etchings

Medium

etching and drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 20 x 29.5 cm (7 7/8 x 11 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 222, state ix/ix

Accession Number

1943.3.8517

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

on tab: (butterfly imp.)

Provenance

(Knoedler & Co., New York.). (Charles Sessler), Philadelphia; purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA, 1928, (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.

1982: Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 84, repro.

1995: Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

2004: "Turner, Whistler, Monet", Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Tate Britain, London, 2004-2005, no. 103.

2012: "Peintre-graveur: Adventures in Graphic Arts in the 19th Century", Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan, 2012.

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 184, iv/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. 222, state ix/ix.