Florence Leyland, 1874

Not on View

Medium

drypoint in black on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 20.8 × 13.49 cm (8 3/16 × 5 5/16 in.)

sheet: 22.38 × 15.42 cm (8 13/16 × 6 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Julius Garfinckel)

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 136, xi/xi

Accession Number

2015.19.415

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

center right in plate: I am Flow.; lower right in plate: [the artist's butterfly]; center left edge in graphite by unknown hand [vertical]: 5179

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
Frederick Keppel & Co.
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

1982: Whistler’s World: The Master’s Etchings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, no. 26

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 110.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 136, xi/xi. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk