Passages de l'Opéra |  Freer Gallery of Art (1903.156) | |
| Number: | 386 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 129 x 218 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 6 | |
| Catalogues: | K.418; M.367; W.256 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (6) | ||
Passages de l'Opéra probably dates from 1888. The trees in the etching appear to be largely leafless, suggesting a date of February or March, or just possibly April 1888, when Whistler was staying at the Hotel du Tibre in Paris. The etching was first sold on 29 June 1888. 1 Another etching dating from this trip is Quai de Montebello [385].
1: Letter to Wunderlich and Co., GUW #13052.