Etchings Institutions search term: grolier club
Rue de la Rochefoucault | ||
Number: | 434 | |
Date: | 1888 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 132 x 221 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at upper left of centre | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 4 | |
Known impressions: | 8 | |
Catalogues: | K.419; M.365 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (8) |
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
17: Paris Exp. Univ. 1889 (cat. no. 419).
Impressions were shown in the Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death. Impressions were lent by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) to the Boston Memorial Exhibition in 1904 (), by John Charles Sigismund Day (1826-1908) to the London show in 1905, and by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) to Rotterdam in 1906 (). 19
18: New York 1898 (cat. no. 262); see REFERENCES : EXHIBITIONS.
19: Boston 1904 (cat. no. 212); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 316); Rotterdam 1906 (cat. no. 55).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought an impression on 19 June 1902 from Frederick Keppel (1845-1912) of F. Keppel & Co. (). Other collectors included John Caldwell (fl. 1887-1907) () and - years later - Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971) ().