UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Finette

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1898.293)
Number: 61
Date: 1859
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 293 x 202 mm
Signed: 'Whistler.' at lower right (3); replaced with new 'Whistler.' at lower right (4-final)
Inscribed: '1859 -' at lower right (3); replaced with new '1859.' at lower right (4-final)
Set/Publication: 'Cancelled Plates', 1879
No. of States: 14
Known impressions: 38
Catalogues: K.58; M.58; T.56; W.54
Impressions taken from this plate  (38)

CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS

  • Thomas, Ralph, A Catalogue of the Etchings and Drypoints of James Abbott MacNeil Whistler, London, 1874 (cat. no. 56) 'Finette'.
  • Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, London, 1886 (cat. no. 54) 'Finette'.
  • International Exhibition, Kelvingrove, Glasgow, 1888 (cat. no. 2552-11) 'Finette'.
  • Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no 58) 'Finette'.
  • Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 58) 'Finette'.

EXHIBITIONS 1855-1905

  • Collection illustrative of the History and Practice of Etching. Lent and Catalogued by James Anderson Rose, Esq., of London, Liverpool, 1874 (cat. no. 529) 'Finette – with a View of Paris from the Window'.
  • Etchings and Dry Points, The Union League Club, New York, 1881 (cat. nos. 75, 76, 77) 'Finette'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings, Drypoints. and Lithographs by Whistler, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1898 (cat. no. 51) 'Finette'.
  • An Exhibition of Etchings and Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, The Caxton Club, 1900 (cat. no. 54) 'Finette'.
  • Art and Industrial Exhibition, Wolverhampton, 1902 (cat. no.114) 'Finette'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings by James McNeill Whistler, Obach and Co., London, 1903 (cat. no. 61) 'Finette'.
  • Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Copley Hall, Boston, February 1904 (cat. no. 48) 'Finette'.
  • Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. no. 56) 'Finette'.
  • Oeuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'École des Beaux-Art, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 318) 'Finette'.
  • Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 54) 'Finette'.

REVIEWS 1855- 1905

  • Monkhouse, Cosmo, 'Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a catalogue by Frederick Wedmore (Thibaudeau)', The Academy, 10 February 1887, p. 136.

GENERAL 1906- PRESENT

  • Prosaic Views, Poetic Vision, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 1996 (cat. no. 10).
  • Victoria Irvine, 'Whistler and the Cancan Dancer: A Case Study of Finette', pp.16-21, in Erma Hermens, Joanna Meacock and Grischka Petri (eds.), CONNECTING WHISTLER: Essays in Honour of Margaret F. MacDonald, Glasgow, 2010, pp. 62-68 at http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_182035_en.pdf
  • Drawing Near. Whistler Etchings from the Zelman Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984 (cat. no. 14).
  • Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984, pp.105, 106, 107-11, 278 (no. 61).
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1225).
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Susan Galassi, Aileen Ribeiro and P. de Montfort, Whistler, Women and Fashion, New Haven and London, 2003, pp. 55-58.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, p. 70.