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James McNeill Whistler

Becquet, 1871

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series Title

Sixteen Etchings

Medium

etching and drypoint in black on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 25.56 × 19.21 cm (10 1/16 × 7 9/16 in.)

sheet: 37.15 × 26.04 cm (14 5/8 × 10 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Julius Garfinckel)

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 62, state vi/vi

Accession Number

2015.19.404

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

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Provenance

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

1980: That’s Entertainment, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1980

1982: Whistler’s World: The Master’s Etchings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, no. 10

1990: Haden, Whistler, Pennell: Three Master Printmakers in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1990, no. 32, repro

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 52.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 62, vi/vi. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk

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