Bébés, Jardin du Luxembourg |  Private collection (-) | |
| Number: | 463 | |
| Date: | 1892/1894 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 177 x 128 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 2 | |
| Catalogues: | K.428; M.420 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (2) | ||
Bébés, Jardin du Luxembourg dates from between 1892 and 1894. It has been dated by comparison with similar Luxembourg subjects, such as Little Terrace, Luxembourg Gardens [443],
The Pantheon from the Terrace, Luxembourg Gardens [473] and Polichinelle, Jardin du Luxembourg [467] and a lithograph, Nursemaids: 'Les Bonnes du Luxembourg' [c081].
The costumes of the women, whose dresses have modest leg o'mutton sleeves, suggest a date of about 1892. The butterfly signature could be of this date or of a slightly later date. Whistler is known to have been printing Paris etchings with Joseph Pennell (1860-1926) in the summer of 1893. 1
1: Pennell 1921C, p. 80.