Market Women, Loches |  Freer Gallery of Art (1913.49) | |
| Number: | 423 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 149 x 80 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 2 | |
| Catalogues: | K.389 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (2) | ||
PUBLICATION
It was not published.
EXHIBITIONS
It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime. In fact it was never exhibited, as far as is known, before 1931, when Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971) showed his impression in Philadelphia (
). 7
). 7 7: Philadelphia 1931 (cat.no. 241).
SALES & COLLECTORS
On 6 April 1891 Whistler sold the first proof of 'Market Women Loches' together with an impression of 'Market Women Turkeys' to H. Wunderlich & Co. of New York for £6.6.0 and £3.3.0 respectively. 8 Wunderlich's stock books record that 'Market Women Loches' was sold a year later, in 1892 possibly to John Caldwell (fl. 1887-1907). 9 Later the same etching was sold through Knoedler's, and eventually bought by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971), who gave it to the National Gallery of Art in 1943 ().
Meanwhile 'Market Women Turkeys' was probably bought by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) (). 10
The purchases from Whistler in 1891 and sold by Wunderlich's in 1891/1892 included impressions of 'Market Women Turkeys' and 'Theatre Loches' (Stock no. a 19706) bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) () and 'Nocturne Palaces' (Stock no. a 17889), bought by Horatio Greenough Curtis (d. ca 1923), Boston (). Freer also bought an impression of Market Women, Loches from Frederick Keppel (1845-1912) on 12 June 1913 ().
).Meanwhile 'Market Women Turkeys' was probably bought by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) (
). 10 The purchases from Whistler in 1891 and sold by Wunderlich's in 1891/1892 included impressions of 'Market Women Turkeys' and 'Theatre Loches' (Stock no. a 19706) bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) (
) and 'Nocturne Palaces' (Stock no. a 17889), bought by Horatio Greenough Curtis (d. ca 1923), Boston (). Freer also bought an impression of Market Women, Loches from Frederick Keppel (1845-1912) on 12 June 1913 ().8: Whistler to Wunderlich, 6 April 1891, GUW #13097.
9: Stock number 'a 19694', £5.0.10 after discount, Stockbooks, AAA; Kennedy Notebook, Colby College.
10: Stock no. a 19720, £2.10.5 after discount.