About the Artwork
The Courtyard, Brussels
1887
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
1834 - 1903
American
Unknown
Etching
Sheet: 8 1/2 × 4 7/8 inches (21.6 × 12.4 cm)
Prints
American Art before 1950
Museum Purchase, Dexter M. Ferry Jr., Fund
2022.10
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Markings
Signed, in plate, center right with Whistler's butterfly monogram; Signed, in graphite, below the plate line, lower left, with Whistler's butterfly monogram, followed by the abbreviation "imp."
Inscribed, in graphite, verso, ’25 5 0’ which may represents an intended selling price of £25.5.0.
Watermark, Pro Patria Dry stamp, lower left corner, JHH, [Joseph Hutchinson Hutchinson, Lugt 2921] Stamp, in black, verso, a pentagon, [Albert W. Scholle, Lugt 2923a]
Provenance
February 1889, sold by the artist, for £10.10.0
(Dowdeswell & Dowdeswells, London, England)
Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson [ca. 1829-1891] (London, England)
March 3, 1892, sold by (Sotheby’s, Wilkinson & Hodge, London) estate of Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson, for £5.5.0
(Robert Dunthorne, dealer, London, England). Albert W. Scholle [1860-1917) ((New York, New York, USA). Private Collection (New Jersey, USA) 2022, sold, after buying-in on December 5, 2011, by (Freeman's Auction House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
2022-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, The Courtyard, Brussels, 1887, etching. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Dexter M. Ferry Jr., Fund, 2022.10.
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