About the Artwork
The Dancing Girl
1890, printed in 1903
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Artist) American, 1834 - 1903 Frederick Goulding (Printer) English, 1842 - 1909
Transfer lithograph printed in black ink on off-white laid paper
Image: 7 1/8 × 5 7/8 inches (18.1 × 14.9 cm) Sheet: 14 1/4 × 8 7/8 inches (36.2 × 22.5 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Julius H. Haass
30.357
Public Domain
Markings
Signed, on stone, lower left: [Whistler's butterfly device]
Inscribed, in pencil, lower left corner: Way 30 | K 32817 Inscribed, lower right corner: C4544 Inscribed, center bottom edge, verso: DK. Inscribed, lower right corner, verso: Dancing Girl
Watermark: D & CBlauw Stamp, in brown, lower left, verso: RBP in a circle, indicating that it was printed at the direction of Whistler's executor, his sister-in-law, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) after Whistler's death. (Lugt 405)
Provenance
Rosalind Birnie Philip (London, England).1930, (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York, USA);
1930-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 12, 4 (1931): pp. 41-43 (ill.).
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, The Dancing Girl, 1890, printed in 1903, transfer lithograph printed in black ink on off-white laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Julius H. Haass, 30.357.
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