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Petite Rue au Beurre, Brussels

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1917.582)
Number: 341
Date: 1887
Medium: etching
Size: 135 x 99 mm
Signed: butterfly at right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 3
Catalogues: K.364; M.363
Impressions taken from this plate  (3)
Etching: PK364_01
The copper plate is the same or close in size to a number of plates used by Whistler, including Resting by the Stove 372, which dates from about 1887, and also many plates etched in the following year, including The Hangman's House, Tours 393, Place Daumont, Tours 390, The Market, Bruges 354, and Café Luxembourg 436.
The copper plate of Petite Rue au Beurre, Brussels was in Whistler's studio at his death and was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who gave it to the University of Glasgow in 1935. It was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line across the bottom left corner.