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Riault (The Wood Engraver) |  Freer Gallery of Art (1898.305) | |
| Number: | 69 | |
| Date: | 1860 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 230 x 154 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler.' at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | '1860.' at lower right | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 22 | |
| Catalogues: | K.65; M.65; T.58; W.62 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (22) | ||
CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS
- Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 65) 'Riault, the Engraver'.
- Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no. 65) 'Riault'.
- Thomas, Ralph, A Catalogue of the Etchings and Drypoints of James Abbott MacNeil Whistler, London, 1874 (cat. no. 58) 'La Graveur'.
- Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, London, 1886 (cat. no. 62) 'The Engraver'.
EXHIBITIONS 1855- 1905
- Mr Whistler's Exhibition, Flemish Gallery, Pall Mall, London, 1874 (cat. no. 38) 'Portrait (known as "The Wood Engraver")'.
- Collection illustrative of the History and Practice of Etching. Lent and Catalogued by James Anderson Rose, Esq., of London, Liverpool, 1874 (cat. no. 484) 'Portrait of M. Riault, known as “Le Graveur”'.
- Etchings and Dry Points, The Union League Club, New York, 1881 (cat. no. 88) 'Riault. The engraver'.
- World's Columbian Exposition, Department of Fine Arts, Chicago, 1893 (cat. no. 2226) 'The Engraver Riault'.
- Exhibition of Etchings, Drypoints. and Lithographs by Whistler, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1898 (cat. no. 59) 'The Engraver'.
- An Exhibition of Etchings and Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, The Caxton Club, 1900 (cat. no. E57) 'The Engraver (Portrait of Riault)'.
- 71st Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1902 (cat. no. 947 (62)) 'The Engraver'.
- 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. 55) 'The Engraver'.
- Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. nos. 63a, b) 'The Engraver'. 1st and 2nd states.
- 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. 62) 'The Engraver'.
REVIEWS 1855- 1905
- Anon., [H. Stewart Cundell], 'English Etching', The Standard, London, 25 April 1878, p. 2 (GUL PC1/94).
GENERAL 1906- PRESENT
- Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984 , pp. 113, 278 (no. 69).
- Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908 , vol. 1, pp. 70, 91.