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Au Sixième

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46663)
Number: 3
Date: 1857
Medium: etching
Size: 108 x 77 mm
Signed: 'Whistler.' at lower right
Inscribed: 'Au Sixième'
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 2
Catalogues: K.3; M.2; T.-
Impressions taken from this plate  (2)

PUBLICATION

Au Sixième was not published.

EXHIBITIONS

It was only shown once in Whistler's lifetime, in a print dealer's show, by Hermann Wunderlich & Co., New York, in 1898 (Graphic with a link to impression #K0030102). This impression, originally owned by Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910), was bought from the show by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919). 16 After Whistler's death this same impression was exhibited in New York at the Grolier Club in 1904. 17

16: New York 1898 (cat. no. 292); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS

17: New York 1904a (cat. no. 4).

SALES & COLLECTORS

There are only two known impressions and both were acquired, probably as gifts, by family members. The impression owned by Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910) was sold with his collection to H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, and bought in 1898 by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) (Graphic with a link to impression #K0030102). The other was bequeathed by Joseph Whistler Revillon (1886-1955) to the University of Glasgow (Graphic with a link to impression #K0030103).