Inscription
lower left butterfly in graphite; lower left in plate: Whistler.- / Dec.1859. / Paris de la Galerie a Op; by later hand, lower left in graphite: a42189
Marks and Labels
John W. Wilson (Lugt 2581)
Provenance
John Waterloo Wilson [1815-1883], Brussels, (Lugt 2581); (Sotheby's, 22 April 1887, lot 196). Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge [1845?-1924], Glasgow, (Lugt 394). ( H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 1903, stock no. a 42189). John Nichols Estabrook and Dorothy Coogan Estabrook; gift to NGA, 1987.
Exhibition History
- 1995
- Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995, as Ile de la Cité, Paris.
Bibliography
- 1910
- Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 60.
- 2012
- MacDonald, Margaret F., Grischka Petri, Joanna Meacock.James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné. University of Glasgow on-line website at http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. University of Glasgow, 2012: no. 63, only state.
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