Fleur-de-lys Passage, 1887

  • James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American, 1834 - 1903

Etching and drypoint

  • Sheet: 7 × 3 1/16 inches (17.8 × 7.8 cm)

Museum Purchase, funds from the Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Fund

2019.102

Signed, in plate, center left, with Whistler's butterfly monogram; Signed, in graphite, below the plate line, lower left, with Whistler's butterfly monogram, followed by the abbreviation "imp."

Dry stamp, JHH, [Joseph Hutchinson Hutchinson, Lugt 2921] Stamp, in blue, verso, HM in circle [Howard Mansfield. Lugt 1342] Stamp, in black, verso, HW [Harris Whittemore. Lugt 1384a. See also Lugt 1342]

Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson [ca. 1829-1891]

March 3-4, 1892, sold by (Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge, London, England, lot 314

(Robert Dunthorne, London, England). Howard Mansfield [1849-1938] (New York, New York, USA)

1919.([A. A. Hahlo and Co., New York, New York, USA)

1919, purchased by Harris Whittemore, Sr. [1864-1927] (Naugatuck, Connecticut, USA)

by descent October 14, 1952, sold by (Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, New York, USA) auction of Whistler etchings and lithographs from the estate of Harris Whittemore, sold by order of the J. H. Whittemore Company, lot 98, one of a two-etching lot that sold for $22.50. to a member of the Whittemore family, probaby Harris Whittemore, Jr. [1894-1974]. by descent, probably to Robert Napier Whittemore [1921-2010]

by descent, Thyrza S. Whittemore

consigned to (Susan Schulman Fine Art, Inc., New York, New York, USA)

2019-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Fleur-de-lys Passage, 1887, etching and drypoint. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, funds from the Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Fund, 2019.102.