A Corner of the Palais Royal |  Freer Gallery of Art (1903.39) | |
| Number: | 258 | |
| Date: | 1886 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 137 x 89 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 3 | |
| Known impressions: | 5 | |
| Catalogues: | K.248; M.243; W.201 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (5) | ||
A Corner of the Palais Royal probably dates from 1886, the year it was first catalogued by Frederick Wedmore (1844-1921) 1 The butterfly signature is consistent with this date. The costumes of the fashionable ladies at left, and in particular the tall hat, somewhat like an inverted flower-pot, suggest this date.
1: Wedmore 1886 A[more] (cat. no. 201).
City scenes of similar date include Piccadilly 256, Little Dordrecht 260 and Fish-Shop, Chelsea 267, but no other etchings of Paris.