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Marchand de Vin, Paris

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(49907)
Number: 438
Date: 1888/1893
Medium: etching
Size: 82 x 201 mm
Signed: butterfly at right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 3
Catalogues: K.421; M.429
Impressions taken from this plate  (3)

PUBLICATION

It was not published.

EXHIBITIONS

Only one exhibition is recorded in Whistler's lifetime. An impression was lent by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) to the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900 6

Following Whistler's death, Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) lent his impression (Graphic with a link to impression #K4210102) in 1904 to the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in Boston and to the comprehensive Memorial show held at the Grolier Club, New York. 7

6: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 272). See REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.

7: New York 1904a (cat. no. 348); Boston 1904 (cat. no. 230).

SALES & COLLECTORS

It was extremely rare. Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) owned an impression which he bought from Whistler's short-lived business outlet, the Company of the Butterfly in 1900 (Graphic with a link to impression #K4210102). Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) had one by 1909 (Graphic with a link to impression #K4210104). The other remained in Whistler's studio and was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) who left it to the University of Glasgow (Graphic with a link to impression #K4210103).