Title Page for "Douze Eaux Fortes d'après Nature", 1858

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series Title

Douze eaux-fortes d'après Nature

Medium

etching in black on blue wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 11.11 × 14.61 cm (4 3/8 × 5 3/4 in.)

sheet: 26.04 × 25.56 cm (10 1/4 × 10 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Julius Garfinckel)

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 22, only state

Accession Number

2015.19.407

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

upper left in plate: Imp. Delâtre. Rue St. Jacques. 171. Paris. Nov. 1858; upper right to center in plate: Douze / Eaux Fortes / d'apres Nature / par / James Whistler; lower center in plate: À / Mon viel Ami Seymour Haden.; upper right margin in black ink: Joseph Sidebotham Esqr / from his friend I.Y.N. / June 24th, 1878; lower right margin in graphite: The Cover for the French Set of Etchings

Provenance

(Frederick Keppel & Co., New York); Julius Garfinckel, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1938; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Garfinckel, Julius

Exhibition History

1952: Whistler, Hunter Gallery of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1952

1978: Artists and Their Circles, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1978

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 25.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 22, only state. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk