Etchings Institutions search term: grolier club
Café Luxembourg | ||
Number: | 436 | |
Date: | 1888/1893 | |
Medium: | etching | |
Size: | 98 x 135 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at upper left | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 1 | |
Known impressions: | 1 | |
Catalogues: | K.434; M.425 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (1) |
Café Luxembourg probably dates from 1888. The butterfly signature, with a dark, shaded trefoil behind its wings, indicates that it was drawn after Whistler's marriage to Beatrice Whistler (1857-1896). The subject, being French, suggests it was done either on their honeymoon in 1888 or when they settled in Paris in the early 1890s.
The size of the copper plate - similar to Resting by the Stove
[372], J.H. Woods' Fruit Shop, Chelsea
[327],
Bird Shop - Seven Dials
[384],
Château de Bridoré
[409],
Place Daumont, Tours
[390],
The Hangman's House, Tours
[393] and Petite Rue au Beurre, Brussels
[341] - would suggest a date between 1887 and 1889.