Greengrocer's Shop, Paris | ||
Number: | 471 | |
Date: | 1892/1894 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 128 x 178 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at upper right | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 1 | |
Known impressions: | 5 | |
Catalogues: | K.424; M.427 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (5) |
PUBLICATION
Greengrocer's Shop, Paris was not published.
EXHIBITIONS
It was first exhibited in 1900, when Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) lent his impression for the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club, Chicago (
). 12 This was, as far as is known, the only exhibition in Whistler's lifetime.
After the artist's death, an impression was shown at Obach's in London in 1903, Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) lent his impression to exhibitions in Boston in 1904 and 1910 (
). In 1904, an impression was also shown at the Grolier Club, New York and Herbert Charles Jerome Pollitt (1871-1942) lent one to the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905. 13

After the artist's death, an impression was shown at Obach's in London in 1903, Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) lent his impression to exhibitions in Boston in 1904 and 1910 (

12: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 270).
13: Boston 1904 (cat. no. 228); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 374).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought an impression from the Company of the Butterfly, in London, Whistler's brief-lived business outlet, possibly in 1899 (
). Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) lent one to exhibitions from 1904 on (
). One may have been owned by the Royal Collection, Windsor, and was certainly owned later by Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935) (
). Benedict is also said to have owned an impression that was later bequeathed to Cornell University by William P. Chapman Jr (
).



