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C. L. Drouet, Sculptor |  Freer Gallery of Art (1889.27) | |
| Number: | 35 | |
| Date: | 1859 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 226 x 152 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler' at lower right, 'Whistler Maitre Eaufortier' at upper right | |
| Inscribed: | '1859.' at lower right; 'Drouet. Sculpteur.' at lower centre | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 73 | |
| Catalogues: | K.55; M.55; T.55; W.53 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (73) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
17: 'Exhibition of Mr. Whistler's Works', unidentified press-cutting, [June 1874], GUL PC1/67. London Pall Mall 1874 (cat. no. 34).
). 19 It was exhibited comparatively widely at print dealer's shows including H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898 () and 1903, and Obach & Co., London, 1903; and at internationals (Chicago in 1893, Buffalo in 1900 and Philadelphia, 1902). 20
18: Liverpool 1874 (cat. no. 477).
19: New York 1881 (cat. no. 74).
20: See REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
). 21
Impressions were shown in the Memorial shows after Whistler's death. Both first and second states were shown at the comprehensive Grolier Club exhibition in 1904. Albert W. Scholle (1860-1917) lent a fine impression to the Boston Memorial in 1904 (
); and John Charles Sigismund Day (1826-1908) lent his to the London show of 1905 (). 22
21: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 49).
22: New York 1904a (cat. nos. 55a, b); Boston 1904 (cat. no. 47); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 53).
SALES & COLLECTORS
). 23
Another 'Drouet' was sold by Whistler to Charles Augustus Howell (1840?-1890) on 14 November 1877. 24
Some years later, in 1889, Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought one from the New York print dealer Frederick Keppel (1845-1912) (
) and he acquired another in 1898 that had come from the collection of Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910) (). Keppel bequeathed another- a later impression on modern laid paper - to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts ().At the sale of the collection of the late Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d.1891), at Sotheby’s, 3 March 1892 (lot 103) a 'trial proof' was bought by Edmund F. Deprez (1851-1915) for the high price of £6.10.0.
23: Pennell 1908 , p. 70.
24: 14-16 November [1877], GUW #13668.
) to the Print Department of the Bibliothèque Nationale. He also gave one to Just Becquet (1829-1907) (who had posed to Whistler in the same year) who planned to bequeath it the the museum at Besançon. 26
An impression owned by Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924) was returned to Whistler for a signature around 1890/1892 - whether by MacGeorge or a dealer is not known. It was later owned by Albert W. Scholle (1860-1917) and was eventually given by Harold K. Hochschild to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (
).Another impression was bought from Edmond Gosselin (1849-1917) by the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin for 450 fr. on 2 January 1902 (
).25: Whistler to Ethel Whibley, [25 May 1892], GUW #06308.