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Place Daumont, Tours

Impression: Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
(2013.407)
Number: 390
Date: 1888
Medium: etching
Size: 135 x 99 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 2
Catalogues: K.369; M.368
Impressions taken from this plate  (2)
Place Daumont, Tours dates from 1888. The butterfly signature is consistent with this date. Place Daumont is in Tours, France. Whistler and his wife visited Tours between 15 and 27 September 1888, during their honeymoon.

Other etchings done in Tours include Little Market Place, Tours [389], The Market Place, Tours [388], Rue des Bons Enfants, Tours [392] and Courtyard, Rue P. L. Courier, Tours [391].