Maud, Standing |  Art Institute of Chicago (2007.145) | |
| Number: | 169 | |
| Date: | 1876-1878 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 228 x 152 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right (7-final) | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 16 | |
| Known impressions: | 13 | |
| Catalogues: | K.114; M.113; W.99 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (13) | ||
PUBLICATION
Maud, Standing was never published.
EXHIBITIONS
It is possible that the title has been confused with that of other portraits of Maud Franklin, because it seems to have been surprisingly rarely exhibited. An impression was lent by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) to an exhibition in Chicago organised by the Caxton Club in 1900 (
). 12
Others were for sale in exhibitions by print dealers, Obach & Co. in London (possibly, and ) and H. Wunderlich & Co. in 1903. 13
Impressions also appeared in the Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death, several states being shown at the comprehensive Grolier Club exhibition in New York in 1904, and individual prints lent by Thomas Jefferson Coolidge jr (1863-1912) to the Boston show in 1904 () and by Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934) to the London Memorial in 1905. 14
). 12 Others were for sale in exhibitions by print dealers, Obach & Co. in London (possibly
, and ) and H. Wunderlich & Co. in 1903. 13 Impressions also appeared in the Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death, several states being shown at the comprehensive Grolier Club exhibition in New York in 1904, and individual prints lent by Thomas Jefferson Coolidge jr (1863-1912) to the Boston show in 1904 (
) and by Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934) to the London Memorial in 1905. 14 12: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 93); see REFERENCES : EXHIBITIONS.
13: New York 1903b (cat. no. 81); 'Whistler Etchings', Morning Post, 7 November 1903 (GUL PC 21/7).
14: New York 1904a (cat. nos. 105a, b, c, d); Boston 1904 (cat. no. 79); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 99).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Whistler sold one impression of 'Miss Franklin', which was probably this etching, to the London print dealer, Thomas M. McLean (b. ca 1832) for £6.6.0 on 17 May 1886 and another on 1 November 1886, although this could have been The Letter (Maud, seated) [116]. 15
Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938) owned two early impressions, which were sold through Obach & Co. in 1903 16 and bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) (, ). Freer bought another impression that had been in the collection of John Caldwell (fl. 1887-1907) in 1898 (). Another impression from two distinguished collections, those of Albert W. Scholle (1860-1917) and Howard Mansfield (1849-1938), was bought by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971) (). A working proof of a later state was also bought by Rosenwald (), who gave both to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Other early collectors included Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924) and Thomas Jefferson Coolidge jr (1863-1912) () and Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935) ().
, ). Freer bought another impression that had been in the collection of John Caldwell (fl. 1887-1907) in 1898 (). Another impression from two distinguished collections, those of Albert W. Scholle (1860-1917) and Howard Mansfield (1849-1938), was bought by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971) (). A working proof of a later state was also bought by Rosenwald (), who gave both to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Other early collectors included Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924) and Thomas Jefferson Coolidge jr (1863-1912) () and Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935) ().16: Morning Post, 26 October 1903 (GUL PC 21/6).