UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Quai de Montebello

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(49905)
Number: 385
Date: 1888
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 152 x 230 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 3
Known impressions: 9
Catalogues: K.417; M.366
Impressions taken from this plate  (9)
Quai de Montebello dates from 1888. It may have been etched when Whistler was in Paris in May 1888, at which time he also etched Passages de l'Opéra [386]. It was first sold on 29 June 1888. 1

Other Paris subjects about this time include Atelier de Bijouterie [378], Café Luxembourg [436], Marchand de Vin, Paris [438] and Sunflowers, Marché St Germain, Paris [437].

1: Whistler to H. Wunderlich and Co., GUW #13052.