Palaces, Brussels

1887

James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

James McNeill Whistler

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.8625

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    MacDonald 2012, no. 338, state i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock no. a 65627). Bought November 7, 1929 by Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1931

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

Bibliography

1910

  • Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 361, i/ii.

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. 338, state i/ii.

Inscriptions

on plate: (butterfly); on tab: (butterfly) imp; in graphite at lower right on the verso: (tiny heart and crown or cross device)

Watermarks

Crowned GR countermark

Wikidata ID

Q65022041

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