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A Corner of the Palais Royal |  Freer Gallery of Art (1903.39) | |
| Number: | 258 | |
| Date: | 1886 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 137 x 89 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 3 | |
| Known impressions: | 5 | |
| Catalogues: | K.248; M.243; W.201 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (5) | ||
PUBLICATION
A Corner of the Palais Royale was not published.
EXHIBITIONS
It was rare and rarely exhibited; it was first seen in two print dealer's exhibitions, being exhibited by Obach & Co. in London and by H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1903. 6
Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought an impression from Wunderlich's in 1903 (
).
After Whistler's death, an impression was shown at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904 and John Charles Sigismund Day (1826-1908) lent an impression to the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905 (). 7
). After Whistler's death, an impression was shown at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904 and John Charles Sigismund Day (1826-1908) lent an impression to the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905 (
). 7
6: London Obach 1903 (cat. no. 172); New York 1903b (cat. no. 161); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
7: London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 201); New York 1904a (cat. no. 209).
SALES & COLLECTORS
The price asked by Whistler remained constant at £5.5.0. He sold impressions on 27 July and 24 August 1887 to Messrs Dowdeswell, London print dealers and publishers. 8 He sold one on 3 May 1888 to Ross Revillon Winans (1850-1912), through Wunderlich & Co., New York, and another on 2 July 1888 to Frederick Keppel (1845-1912) of F. Keppel & Co. 9
An impression was sold at the auction of the collection of the late Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d.1891) at Sotheby's, 3 March 1892 (lot 305) and bought by Edmund F. Deprez (1851-1915) of Deprez & Gutekunst for £1.4.0.
Early collectors included Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904) (); John Charles Sigismund Day (1826-1908) (); Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) and Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937) (); Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), bought from Wunderlich's in 1903 (); Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935) and Charles C. Cunningham (1910-1979) ().
); John Charles Sigismund Day (1826-1908) (); Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) and Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937) (); Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), bought from Wunderlich's in 1903 (); Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935) and Charles C. Cunningham (1910-1979) ().