American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists Featuring the Collection of Virginia and Stuart Peltz

Note

The present work is one of twelve etchings Whistler completed during his trip to Brussels in September 1887. While the exact locale depicted in the etching remains unknown, it is thought to be near the Grand Place, where Whistler stayed and worked. Part of the Brussels Set, the print was never published by a dealer. Instead, it sold over a short amount of time in fairly limited numbers. According to Margaret F. MacDonald, only seven other impressions are known, including those now in the Art Institute, Chicago; the Cleveland Museum of Art; Colby College Museum of Art; Freer Art Gallery, Washington, DC; The Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow; the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.