The Garden
- Date
- 1880, retouched as the fourth state before March 1886
- Material
- Etching and drypoint
- depicts
- Venice, Veneto region, Italy, Europe
- matrix made in
- Venice, Veneto region, Italy, Europe
- Classification
- Prints
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- image: 12 1/8 x 9 7/16 in. (30.8 x 23.9 cm)
- Credit Line
- The Sidney S. and Sadie Cohen Print Purchase Fund
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 140:1990
NOTES
Whistler's etching shows a boy dipping his foot in a canal while sitting on steps leading to an enclosed garden. Whistler sketched the image directly onto the prepared metal plate while traveling by gondola or on foot through the city of Venice. Whistler often reworked the lines on etching plates and printed a variety of revised impressions, known as states. He produced at least nine different states of this etching before canceling the plate in July 1887.
Provenance
Charles C. Cunningham Jr. (b. 1934), Brookline, MA, USA [1]
- 1990
R.M. Light & Co., Inc., Santa Barbara, CA
1990 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from R.M. Light & Co., Inc. [2]
Notes:
[1] Provenance information from an invoice dated September 11, 1990 from R.M. Light & Co., Inc. to SLAM [SLAM document files]. The dates that Mr. Cunningham acquired and sold the work are unknown.
[2] Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, November 13, 1990.
- 1990
R.M. Light & Co., Inc., Santa Barbara, CA
1990 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from R.M. Light & Co., Inc. [2]
Notes:
[1] Provenance information from an invoice dated September 11, 1990 from R.M. Light & Co., Inc. to SLAM [SLAM document files]. The dates that Mr. Cunningham acquired and sold the work are unknown.
[2] Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, November 13, 1990.
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