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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M751
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
La Belle Dame Endormie
Other Titles
Original Language Title: La Dormeuse or The Beautiful Sleeper
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1894
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/262473

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Transfer lithograph printed on off-white antique laid paper
Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
sheet: 21.9 x 19.5 cm (8 5/8 x 7 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite butterfly
  • inscription: lower margin, right of center, graphite: [butterfly]
  • inscription: verso, lower left corner, graphite, handwritten, French: dealer/collector inventory number(?) and title: a24470 (underlined)/mn/ La Belle dormeuse
  • watermark: paper, compression: Strasbourg lily
  • inscription: upper left about sitter's knee, lithographed: [butterfly]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
only state
Standard Reference Number
Way 69; Art Institute of Chicago 108

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross
Accession Year
1917
Object Number
M751
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Exhibition History

  • Touchstone: 200 Years of Artists' Lithographs, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/15/1998 - 11/01/1998; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 07/17/1999 - 09/26/1999; Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, 09/30/1999 - 12/10/2000; William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Museum, Chapel Hill, 02/04/2001 - 05/13/2001

Verification Level

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