Flaming Forge, 1901

Not on View

Medium

etching in dark brown on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 19.05 × 15.08 cm (7 1/2 × 5 15/16 in.)

sheet: 22.07 × 18.1 cm (8 11/16 × 7 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Julius Garfinckel)

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 490, only state

Accession Number

2015.19.409

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Nathaniel Sparks (printer) British, 1880 - 1957

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in graphite by unknown hand: The Flaming Forge, Ajaccio; lower right in graphite by unknown hand: C3766- / S38377; center verso in graphite: Nathaniel Sparks imp.

Provenance

(Harlow, McDonald & 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

1990: Haden, Whistler, Pennell: Three Master Printmakers in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1990, no. 54, repro

2013: Recent Acquisitions: American Art from the Johns Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2013-2014

Bibliography

2012: MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 490, only state. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk