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JAMES A. M. WHISTLER Maison, Rue Orbe, Rouen.
Pencil on cream wove paper, circa 1857-58. 188x105 mm; 7 1/2x4 1/4 inches. Signed and titled in pencil, lower left and lower right respectively. Ex-collection Mrs. Charles Thynne, the artist's niece, received directly from the artist; private collection, Paris, sold Christie's, London, December 19, 1972, lot 89; private collection, New York.
Exhibited, "Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late James McNeill Whsitler, First President of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers," February 22-April 15, 1905, New Gallery, London; and "Works on Paper," November 20, 2008-January 3, 2009, Spanierman Gallery, New York, pages 14-15, number 5 (illustrated).
Published in MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolors: A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven, 1995, pages 68-69, number 224 (illustrated).
Drawn during Whistler's sketching tour of Northern France and the Rhine Valley, with fellow artist Ernest Delannoy, during which he compiled numerous studies drawn directly from nature which would be used for his Douze Eaux-Fortes d'après Nature (Twelve Etchings from Nature), also known as the French Set, his first collected series of etchings printed in Paris and London in 1858.
