Etching and drypoint on cream laid Japan paper, 1859. 154x230 mm; 6 1/8x9 1/8 inches, full margins. A superb, richly-inked impression with crisp, inky plate edges.
Whistler made this etching during a return trip to Paris in the fall of 1859. It shows an all-night café with drinkers hunched over tables, foreshadowing the Venice etchings he made 20 years later both in subject matter and in the loosely-drawn, flat picture plane. Kennedy 49.
