Drouet

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American, 1834 - 1903

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1859

Etching and drypoint on laid paper

Plate: 8 7/8 × 6 in. (22.6 × 15.2 cm)

Sheet: 10 15/16 × 7 15/16 in. (27.8 × 20.2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Alden Guild, Class of 1952

PR.979.22

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed and dated, in plate, lower right: Whistler 1859; inscribed, in plate, lower center: Drouet sculpteur; upper right: faint inscription Watermark: castle

Exhibition History

American Works on Paper to 1950: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 22-December 9, 2007.

James McNeil Whistler: Works from the Dartmouth Collection, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 9-March 13, 1988.

Publication History

Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 156, no. 126.

Provenance

Alden Guild (1929-2017), Montpelier, Vermont; given to the present collection, 1979.

Catalogue Raisonne

E. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910, no. 55. H. Mansfield, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909, no. 55.

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