Collection The Laundress: "La Blanchisseuse de la Place Dauphine"

The Laundress: "La Blanchisseuse de la Place Dauphine"

James Abbott McNeill Whistler , Artist Frederick Goulding , Printer
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About the Artwork

The Laundress: "La Blanchisseuse de la Place Dauphine"

1894, printed in 1904

James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Artist) American, 1834 - 1903 Frederick Goulding (Printer) English, 1842 - 1909

Lithograph printed in black ink on cream laid paper

Image: 9 1/8 × 6 1/8 inches (23.2 × 15.6 cm) Sheet: 12 3/8 × 7 5/8 inches (31.4 × 19.4 cm)

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Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Gift of Julius H. Haass

30.356

Public Domain

Markings

Signed, on stone, center right edge: [Whistler's butterfly device]

Inscribed, in pencil, lower left corner: W58 | K 32862 Inscribed, center bottom edge of sheet: 64 Inscribed, lower right corner: 57 Inscribed, in brown ink, lower right corner: 38 Inscribed, in pencil, verso: a95642

Watermark, center of sheet: PA Stamped, 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.

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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, The Laundress: "La Blanchisseuse de la Place Dauphine", 1894, printed in 1904, lithograph printed in black ink on cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Julius H. Haass, 30.356.

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