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Balcony, Amsterdam

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(2007.116)
Number: 446
Date: 1889
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 272 x 169 mm
Signed: butterfly at right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 4
Known impressions: 27
Catalogues: K.405; M.404; W.262
Impressions taken from this plate  (27)

CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS

  • Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 405) 'Balcony, Amsterdam'.
  • Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no. 404) 'The Balcony, Amsterdam'.
  • Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, 2nd ed., revised, London, 1899 (cat. no. 262) 'Balcony, Amsterdam'.

EXHIBITIONS 1855- 1905

  • [Exhibition], Dunthorne's Gallery at the Rembrandt Head, London, 1890 .
  • Exposition Générale des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1890 (cat. no. 1048) 'Le ballon [sic]. – Amsterdam; eau-forte'.
  • [Exhibition of watercolours, pastels and etchings belonging to C. L. Freer], Grolier Club, New York, 1890 .
  • World's Columbian Exposition, Department of Fine Arts, Chicago, 1893 (cat. no. 2265 [1683]) 'The Balcony, Amsterdam'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings, Drypoints. and Lithographs by Whistler, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1898 (cat. no. 278) 'The Balcony, Amsterdam'.
  • 2nd Exhibition, Pictures, Drawings, Prints and Sculptures, International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, London, 1899 (cat. no. 239).
  • An Exhibition of Etchings and Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, The Caxton Club, 1900 (cat. no. E228) 'Balcony, Amsterdam'.
  • Internationale Kunstausstellung, Dresden, 1901 .
  • 71st Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1902 (cat. no. 947 [262]) 'Balcony, Amsterdam'.
  • [Exhibition of recently acquired works], Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett, 1902 .
  • Exhibition of Etchings by James McNeill Whistler, Obach and Co., London, 1903 (cat. no. 217) 'Balcony, Amsterdam'.
  • Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. nos. 282, a,b,c) 'Balcony, Amsterdam'.
  • Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Copley Hall, Boston, February 1904 (cat. nos. 189, 190) 'Balcony, Amsterdam'.
  • Oeuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'École des Beaux-Art, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 412) 'Le Balcon. Amsterdam. - (The Balcony. Amsterdam)'.
  • Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 262) 'Balcony, Amsterdam'.

REVIEWS 1855- 1905

  • R.A.M. Stevenson, 'The Art Season', The Academy, London, 20 May 1899, pp. 561-2 (GUL PC17/57).

GENERAL 1906- PRESENT

  • Prosaic Views, Poetic Vision, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 1996 (cat. no. 55).
  • Heijbroek, J. F., 'Holland van het water: de bezoeken van James Abbott McNeill Whistler aan Nederland,' Bulletin Rijksmuseum, 1988, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 225-56 .
  • Heijbroek, J. F. and Margaret F. MacDonald, Whistler and Holland, Zwolle and Amsterdam, 1997 , pp. 70, 72.
  • Martin Hopkinson, 'Nathaniel Sparks's Printing of Whistler's Etchings', Print Quarterly, 1999, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 340, 342, 349, 352.
  • Drawing Near. Whistler Etchings from the Zelman Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984 (cat. no. 82).
  • Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984 , p. 284 (no. 406).