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Mairie, Loches |  Freer Gallery of Art (1889.7) | |
| Number: | 413 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 220 x 130 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 12 | |
| Catalogues: | K.382; M.382; W.259 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (12) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
, reproduced below). 10
Freer lent his print again to another Chicago exhibition, which was organised by the Caxton Club in 1900 (
). 11 Mansfield lent his own impression (which was inscribed 'Very fine Proof.' by Whistler) to the annual exhibition in Philadelphia in 1902 and to the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in Boston in 1904 (). 12
Impressions were also shown in other Memorial shows: two impressions were shown at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, one in London, lent by the Board of Education (
), and one in Paris in 1905. 13
10: Paris Exp. Univ. 1889 (cat. no. 419); Brussels 1890 (cat. no. 1051); Chicago 1893 (cat. no. 2258 [1678]). See REFERENCES : EXHIBITIONS.
11: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. E225).
12: Philadelphia 1902 (cat. no. 947 [259]); Boston 1904 (cat. no. 186).
13: New York 1904a (cat. nos. 279, 279B); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 259); Paris Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 409).
SALES & COLLECTORS
).'2' was also written on another impression of the first state, but it is not certain where and when this was sold (). It is not possible to tell whether the number written on the print relates to its sale to a particular dealer or the printing of the etching. ). Similarly, one impression of the second state is inscribed '(No 1)' (), and was probably the impression that appears first in a list of 18 etchings sold to Roland F. Knoedler (1856-1932) of Knoedler & Co. on 20 July 1889. 16
), and on 14 June 1889 to Samuel Joshua (1833 or 1834 - d. 1907). 17
John Charles Sigismund Day (1826-1908) was among early collectors (), but whether he was buying from Whistler or a dealer is unknown. Henry James (1843-1916) asked Whistler for an impression of The Hangman's House, Tours
[393], but because it was 'not yet properly printed', on 17 February 1889 Whistler gave him a 'proof' of Mairie, Loches. 18 James replied: 19: 18 February [1889], GUW #02403; see Ailsa Boyd, '"Something vibrates back": Whistler and Henry James', in E.Hermens, J.Meacock and G.Petri (eds.), CONNECTING WHISTLER: ..., Glasgow, 2010, pp. 62-68 at http://www.gla.ac.uk/ media/media_182035_en.pdf
). ). 20 In the following year, on 21 January 1891 Whistler sold an impression to Edmund F. Deprez (1851-1915) of Deprez & Gutekunst at the usual price of £12.12.0. 21
By contrast, an impression was sold at auction from the collection of the late Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d.1891) at Sotheby's, 3 March 1892 (lot 338) and bought by Deprez for only £4.0.0.Finally Whistler sold an impression in 1899 to Wunderlich's of New York, and with their discount this came to £10.10.0. 22 Wunderlich's are known to have handled impressions owned by Miss Louise Veltin (dates unknown) (
) and by Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937) () but whether they bought directly from Wunderlich's is not known. Other early collectors include John Charles Sigismund Day (1826-1908), in England (
) ; and Thomas Jefferson Coolidge jr (1863-1912) () and Robert Forsyth (fl. 1927) () in America.