The Smith, Passage du Dragon

1894

James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

Thomas Robert Way

Printer, British, 1861/1862 - 1913

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of Jack and Margrit Vanderryn)

  • Dimensions

    image (irregular): 27.5 × 17.6 cm (10 13/16 × 6 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 37.15 × 23.97 cm (14 5/8 × 9 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.3239

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Stratis & Tedeschi 1998, no. 103, iii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

the artist, London, England; Rosalind Birnie Philip (the artist's sister-in-law), London, England; Jack and Margrit Vanderryn, Bethesda, Maryland; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1896

  • Way, Thomas Robert. Mr. Whistler's Lithographs: The Catalogue. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1896; New York: H. Wunderlich & Co., 1905, no. 73.

1998

  • Stratis, Harriet K., and Martha Tedeschi, eds. The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, vol. 1. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998, pp. 319-323, no. 103, iii/iii.

Inscriptions

center left on stone: [the artist's butterfly]; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: W.73; lower right edge in graphite by unknown hand: K.86; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: W.73 AF99

Markings

stamped lower left verso in brown ink: [RBP monogram]

Wikidata ID

Q77010103

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