Fumette, from The French Set
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American, 1834 - 1903
1858
Etching with drypoint on laid paper
Plate: 6 1/2 × 4 7/16 in. (16.5 × 11.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Alden Guild, Class of 1952
PR.979.57
Printer
Auguste Delâtre, Paris
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in plate, lower right: Whistler; inscribed, in plate, lower left: Imp. Delatre. Rue St. Jacques. 171
Exhibition History
James McNeil Whistler: Works from the Dartmouth Collection, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 9-March 13, 1988.
Provenance
Alden Guild (1929-2017), Montpelier, Vermont; given to the present collection, 1979.
Catalogue Raisonne
E. Kennedy, The Etched Works of Whistler, London, 1910, no. 13. H. Mansfield, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909, no. 15.
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