About the Artwork
Fleur-de-lys Passage
1887
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
1834 - 1903
American
Unknown
Etching and drypoint
Sheet: 7 × 3 1/16 inches (17.8 × 7.8 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Museum Purchase, funds from the Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Fund
2019.102
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Markings
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."
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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]
Provenance
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)
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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.
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