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Passages de l'Opéra |  Freer Gallery of Art (1903.156) | |
| Number: | 386 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 129 x 218 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 6 | |
| Catalogues: | K.418; M.367; W.256 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (6) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
Following Whistler's death, Mansfield lent his impression to the Whistler Memorial exhibition in Boston in 1904. An impression was also shown at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904. Ernest Marsh (fl. 1935) lent another to the London Memorial show in 1905. 8
6: New York 1899 (no cat. no.).
7: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 222); See REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
8: Boston 1904 (cat. no. 182); New York 1904a (cat. no. 276); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 256).
SALES & COLLECTORS
On 2 July 1890 Whistler sent 19 etchings to South Kensington Museum, of which No. 16, 'Passages de L'Opéra', was among works returned on 21 August. 10
An impression from the 'Cox collection' - probably James Cox-Cox (ca 1849- d.1901) - was bought from Messrs Obach & Co., London, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) in November 1903 (
). Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904) owned an impression, which was bequeathed to the New York Public Library (). One owned by Harry Brisbane Dick (1855-1916) was bought by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1917 (). Another was acquired, possibly through Wunderlich's, by Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935) () and bequeathed to Cornell University by William P. Chapman, Jr.