About the Artwork
Vitré: The Canal, Brittany
1893, printed in 1904
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Artist) American, 1834 - 1903 Frederick Goulding (Printer) English, 1842 - 1909
Transfer lithograph with stuming printed in black ink on cream laid paper
Image: 9 1/8 × 6 inches (23.2 × 15.2 cm) Sheet: 12 3/8 × 7 1/4 inches (31.4 × 18.4 cm)
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Gift of Julius H. Haass
30.354
Public Domain
Markings
Signed, on stone, center right edge of image: [Whistler's butterfly device]
Inscribed, in pencil, lower left: W39 | K 32834 Inscribed, lower left corner, verso: B700 Inscribed, lower right, verso: Vitre-Canal Inscribed, in brown ink, lower right corner: 64
Watermark, center of sheet: PA Stamp, 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, Vitré: The Canal, Brittany, 1893, printed in 1904, transfer lithograph with stuming printed in black ink on cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Julius H. Haass, 30.354.
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