436Café LuxembourgFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1902.119 State: 1/1 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from the Company of the Butterfly, London, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1902 (FGA records); bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 102 x 135 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 99 x 135 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | |
| Tab?: | yes |
| Watermarks: | no |
| Medium: | etching |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | traces of tone along the plate edges. |
| Note on foul biting: | scattered flecks; a number of horizontal 'wiping scratches' across the lower half of the plate; curving right-left vertical scratches at the lower right corner. |
| Print note: | a lightly etched plate or lightly inked impression; remnant of an earlier figure at left. |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | butterfly |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate: | 'BILLIAR[DS]' and 'CAFÉ R[illegible]' |
| Inscriptions by others on the plate: | no |
| Whistler's signature on paper: | no |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper: | no |
| Tab signed/inscribed: | butterfly 'imp.' |
| Note on the tab: | tab 30-39 mm from left, height 3 mm |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | |
| Collector's mark: | 'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'G351 Café Luxembourg' at lower left on the verso. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K4340102 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.