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Soupe à trois sous

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Accession no: 17.3.42
State: 1/1

Collection credit:Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917  
Image credit:Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art  
Provenance:Bought from the collection of Harris Brisbane Dick (1835-1916), with the Dick Fund, by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1917.  

 

Paper size:200 x 312 mm  
Plate mark size:152 x 228 mm  
Note on size:rough edge at the bottom.  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:ivory  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:browned at edges  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:posthorn  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:light tone  
Note on foul biting:A few dots, and bottom edge.  
Print note:  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whistler. - '  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:no  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:no  
Whistler's signature on paper:no  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:no  
Tab signed/inscribed:no  
Note on the tab:  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:no  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'Curly headed man had been given the Legion of honor for bravery on the barricade but afterwards was degraded on account of bad conduct' on verso  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0490114  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.