Carpet Menders, Paris | ||
Number: | 480 | |
Date: | 1897/1898 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 201 x 251 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at left | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 1 | |
Known impressions: | 2 | |
Catalogues: | K.420; M.416; W.257 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (2) |
PUBLICATION
It was not published.
EXHIBITIONS
Impressions were exhibited at least three times in Whistler's lifetime, first by H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898; next, lent by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) to an exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900 and to the first Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1902 (
). 11
After Whistler's death, impressions were shown at the Memorial Exhibitions in Boston, Paris, London, and Rotterdam, being lent to Boston by Mansfield, and to Rotterdam by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) (
). 12

After Whistler's death, impressions were shown at the Memorial Exhibitions in Boston, Paris, London, and Rotterdam, being lent to Boston by Mansfield, and to Rotterdam by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) (

11: New York 1898 (cat. no. 290); Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 223); Philadelphia 1902 (cat. no. 947 [257]).
12: London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 2570); Paris Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 408); Boston 1904 (cat. no. 184); Rotterdam 1906 (cat. no. 35).
SALES & COLLECTORS
In the summer of 1898 Whistler sold an impression of 'Carpet Menders - Paris -' to H. Wunderlich & Co. of New York for £10.10.0. 13
One impression has not been located, that owned by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) in 1909-1910 (
). Only two impressions have been located, one that stayed in the artist's studio, and was given by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) to the University of Glasgow (
), and another that was acquired - probably from Colnaghi's in the 1930s - by Margaret Selkirk Watson Parker (1867-1936), who left it to the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor (
).
One impression has not been located, that owned by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) in 1909-1910 (



13: Wunderlich's to Whistler, 1898 Sales Report, 24 March 1899, GUW #07305.