A Corner of the Palais Royal |  Freer Gallery of Art (1903.39) | |
| Number: | 258 | |
| Date: | 1886 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 137 x 89 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 3 | |
| Known impressions: | 5 | |
| Catalogues: | K.248; M.243; W.201 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (5) | ||
STATE
Three states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at lower right.
The composition is complete. There is strong shading on the lower panes of the long window at the top; there are small light areas around the lamp, under the arcade.
State 2
Fine shading is added above and to right of the lamp, filling in the light areas, and between the two pillars to right.
State 3
Fine diagonal shading is added around the lamp, and extends the shadow below the lamp; the shading at the bottom of the tall window appears to have worn or been rubbed down.
State 3 (cancelled)
Cancelled with one diagonal line.
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 5
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 5
5: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.