The Smith, Passage du Dragon, 1894

Not on View

Medium

lithograph in black on laid paper

Dimensions

image (irregular): 27.5 × 17.6 cm (10 13/16 × 6 15/16 in.)

sheet: 37.15 × 23.97 cm (14 5/8 × 9 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Jack and Margrit Vanderryn)

Catalogue Raisonné

Stratis & Tedeschi 1998, no. 103, iii/iii

Accession Number

2015.19.3239

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Thomas Robert Way (printer) British, 1861/1862 - 1913

Image Use

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Inscription

center left on stone: [the artist's butterfly]; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: W.73; lower right edge in graphite by unknown hand: K.86; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: W.73 AF99

Marks and Labels

stamped lower left verso in brown ink: [RBP monogram]

Provenance

the artist, London, England; Rosalind Birnie Philip (the artist's sister-in-law), London, England; Jack and Margrit Vanderryn, Bethesda, Maryland; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Philip, Rosalind Birnie
Vanderryn, Jack and Margrit
Whistler, James McNeill

Bibliography

1896: Way, Thomas Robert. Mr. Whistler's Lithographs: The Catalogue. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1896; New York: H. Wunderlich & Co., 1905, no. 73.

1998: Stratis, Harriet K., and Martha Tedeschi, eds. The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, vol. 1. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998, pp. 319-323, no. 103, iii/iii.