Soupe à Trois Sous (Soup for Three Cents)
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American, 1834 - 1903
1859
Etching on Japanese tissue
Plate: 6 × 9 in. (15.3 × 22.8 cm)
Sheet: 8 1/8 × 10 1/8 in. (20.7 × 25.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Margaret Stamm Stevens, Class of 1927W
PR.994.10
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in plate, upper center: Whistler; inscribed, in graphite, lower left corner: C; inscribed, on reverse, in ink, lower center: T. u Baldinger.
Provenance
Purchased in either Antwerp or Paris, in the 1930's; 1994 given to Dartmouth College by Mrs. Robert Nichols Stevens, Class of 1927W.
Catalogue Raisonne
E. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler, San Francisco, 1978, no. 49. H. Mansfield, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909, no. 49.
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