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James McNeill Whistler

The Toilet, 1878

Not on View

Medium

lithotint in black on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 26 × 16.4 cm (10 1/4 × 6 7/16 in.)

sheet: 38.2 × 26.3 cm (15 1/16 × 10 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Stratis & Tedeschi 1998, no. 10, i/v

Accession Number

1943.3.8665

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

in stone: (butterfly)

Provenance

Purchased April 13, 1939 by Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 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.

2022: The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2022, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1896: Way, Thomas Robert. Mr. Whistler's Lithographs: The Catalogue. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1896; New York: H. Wunderlich & Co., 1905, no. 6.

1998: Stratis, Harriet K., and Martha Tedeschi, eds. The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, vol. 1. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998, pp. 73-77, no. 10, i/v.

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