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Soupe à trois sous

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1898.250)
Number: 64
Date: 1859
Medium: etching
Size: 152 x 228 mm
Signed: 'Whistler. -' at upper right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 56
Catalogues: K.49; M.49; T.25; W.27
Impressions taken from this plate  (56)
Soupe à trois sous dates from 1859. According to Thomas: 'While he was etching this (Paris, 1859), at twelve o'clock at night, a gend'arme came up to him and wanted to know what he was doing. Whistler gave him the plate upside down, but officialism could make nothing of it'. 1

1: Thomas 1874 (cat. no. 25).

Paris subjects of this date are mostly portraits, including Bibi Valentin [34], Bibi Lalouette [33], J. Becquet, Sculptor [62], Z. Astruc, Editor of 'L'Artiste' [36], C. L. Drouet, Sculptor [35], Fumette, Standing [59], Fumette's Bent Head [58], Finette [61] and Venus [60], plus one cityscape, Isle de la Cité, Paris [63].