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Soupe à trois sous

Art Institute of Chicago
Accession no: 1938.1929
State: 1/1

Collection credit:The Clarence Buckingham Collection  
Image credit:Photo © The Art Institute of Chicago  
Provenance:John W. Wilson (1815-1883), Haarlem, Brussels and Paris; Wilson sale, Sotheby's, London, 22-23 April 1887 (lot 181), sold to Dowdeswell for £6.10.0; Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d. 1891), London; Hutchinson sale, Sotheby's, London, 3 March 1892 (lot 73), bought by Deprez & Gutekunst for £1.0.0. Royal Collection, Windsor; sold to Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1906; sold to H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 1906 (stock no. 41959); sold to Clarence L. Buckingham, Chicago, for $60; acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, Clarence Buckingham Collection, 1938.  
Additional acq. no:R 5750  

 

Paper size:178 x 253 mm  
Plate mark size:150 x 225 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:Buff  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):wove  
Note on the paper:Buff wove paper with pale blue fibres running through it.  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:no  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:  
Note on foul biting:  
Print note:While Lochnan identifies the print as a drypoint, it is clearly an etching.  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whistler. - '  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:no  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:no  
Whistler's signature on paper:no  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:no  
Tab signed/inscribed:no  
Note on the tab:  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:'JOHN W.WILSON COLLECTION' stamp (John W. Wilson, s.r. Lugt 2581); 'JHH' blind stamp (J.H. Hutchinson, Lugt 2921); 'VR' crowned, oval stamp (Royal Library, Windsor, Lugt 2535); 'C.B.' (C. L. Buckingham, Lugt 497).  
Dealers' stock nos:'a 41959' at lower right verso  
Misc inscriptions by others:'Ralph Thomas' (in script) at lower left verso; 'W.W' (or W.h.? In script) at lower right verso  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0490102  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.