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James McNeill Whistler: American, 1834 - 1903

The Little Pool
1861: etching and drypoint in black on laid paper; plate: 10.16 × 12.54 cm (4 × 4 15/16 in.); sheet: 12.54 × 14.92 cm (4 15/16 × 5 7/8 in.); MacDonald 2012, no. 79, ix/ix; Corcoran Collection (Museum exchange); 2015.19.775; Not on View

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Inscription

center right in plate: Whistler 1861.

Provenance

Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1952; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1982: Whistler’s World: The Master’s Etchings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, no. 13

1990: Haden, Whistler, Pennell: Three Master Printmakers in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1990, no. 35, repro

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 74.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 79, ix/ix. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk