The Piazzetta, 1879-1880

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint in black on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 25.72 × 18.1 cm (10 1/8 × 7 1/8 in.)

sheet (trimmed to the platemark): 26.35 × 18.42 cm (10 3/8 × 7 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Julius Garfinckel)

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 218, state v/ix

Accession Number

2015.19.421

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: [the artist's butterfly]; lower left in graphite: [the artist's butterfly] imp

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

1982: Whistler’s World: The Master’s Etchings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, no. 31

1983: Sargent's Contemporaries, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983, no. 28

1990: Haden, Whistler, Pennell: Three Master Printmakers in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1990, no. 49, repro

2003: Whistler and His Circle in Venice, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003, p. 87, no. 36, repro

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 189.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 218, v/ix. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk