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Quai de Montebello

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(49905)
Number: 385
Date: 1888
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 152 x 230 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 3
Known impressions: 9
Catalogues: K.417; M.366
Impressions taken from this plate  (9)
Quai de Montebello dates from 1888. It may have been etched when Whistler was in Paris in May 1888, at which time he also etched Passages de l'Opéra 386. It was first sold on 29 June 1888. 1

Other Paris subjects about this time include Atelier de Bijouterie 378, Café Luxembourg 436, Marchand de Vin, Paris 438 and Sunflowers, Marché St Germain, Paris 437.

1: Whistler to H. Wunderlich and Co., GUW #13052.