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Château de Verneuil, Touraine

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1891.11)
Number: 408
Date: 1888
Medium: etching
Size: 178 x 128 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 4
Catalogues: K.380; M.381
Impressions taken from this plate  (4)

TECHNIQUE

The plate for Château de Verneuil, Touraine, was executed in pure etching. Remnants of an earlier subject were scraped out but are visible under the landscape (see Graphic with a link to impression #K3800102, Graphic with a link to impression #K3800103).

PRINTING

Two impressions of this rare etching are in black ink, printed with light tone, on ivory laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K3800103, Graphic with a link to impression #K3800104) and two on cream Japanese paper, as thin as tissue (Graphic with a link to impression #K3800102, Graphic with a link to impression #K3800105). In 1889 Whistler noted that he had one impression in stock. 12 Since he sold two impressions at a later date, he must have printed some more about that time, or simply miscounted.

12: 18 July 1889, GUW #13235.