Drouet

James Abbott McNeill Whistler1859

Details

Title: Drouet
Creator: James McNeill Whistler
Date Created: 1859
Subject Keywords: male portraits, portraits, print states
Signatures / Inscriptions: Inscribed in pencil, lower left: butterfly monogram; signed in plate, lower right: “Whistler/1859”; inscribed in plate, lower center: “Drouet. Sculpteur.”
Print State: Second of two states, from erased and cancelled plate
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1938
Materials & Techniques: Etching and drypoint on very thin Asian laid paper
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Dimensions: 1903
Bibliography: Kennedy 55 ii/ii; S. William Pelletier, “Whistler’s ‘Drouet’ Drypoint: Its States, and Detection of Impressions from the Restored Plate,” Georgia Museum of Art Bulletin 19 (1995): 1–16 (offprint in Print Reference Library)
Associated People: Created by James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903)
Accession Number: 1938.D1.39

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