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Greengrocer's Shop, Paris

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1906.132)
Number: 471
Date: 1892/1894
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 128 x 178 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 5
Catalogues: K.424; M.427
Impressions taken from this plate  (5)
Greengrocer's Shop, Paris dates from between 1892 and 1894. The copper plate is the same size as several used between 1887 and the early 1890s.
Whistler's biographer, Joseph Pennell (1860-1926) was closely involved in printing Whistler's late Paris etchings, possibly including this etching:
'[Whistler] explained that he wanted J. to help with his printing - he was biting and printing the last Paris plates which no one had seen. This was arranged, though only after endless postponements ... the printing began and the friendship became more intimate ... For weeks in the summer of 1893, either at the printing press in the Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs or at the Rue du Bac, J. was with Whistler almost daily.' 1

1: Pennell 1921C , p. 12.