Fumette, Standing |  New York Public Library (MEZAP) | |
| Number: | 59 | |
| Date: | 1859 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 350 x 221 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler.' at lower right (2) | |
| Inscribed: | '1859.' at lower right (2) | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 7 | |
| Catalogues: | K.56; M.56; T.61; W.50 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (7) | ||
PUBLICATION
There may have been plans to take impressions from the cancelled plate for publication in the set of cancelled etchings published by the Fine Art Society in 1879. However, after printing only one or two impressions, it was not included in the set as published. Only one impression from the cancelled proof is known (
).
).EXHIBITIONS
The earliest exhibitions are not entirely certain, because of the similarity in title between this etching and Fumette [12]. 12
12: See REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904) lent a 'Trial proof; very rare' to the Union League Club exhibition in New York in 1881 (). 13 H. Wunderlich & Co. exhibited an impression in 1898, which was bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) (). 14 Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) lent a 'Trial proof before signature' to the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club show in Chicago in 1900 (), and to a show in Philadelphia in 1902. 15 In London, Obach & Co. showed another impression in 1903.
Impressions were also shown at the Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death, including two exhibited at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, one 'Before the signature' and the other, 'With the signature,"Whistler, 1859."' Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935) lent to the Boston show in 1904, and John Charles Sigismund Day (1826-1908) to the London Memorial in 1905. 16
). 13 H. Wunderlich & Co. exhibited an impression in 1898, which was bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) (). 14 Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) lent a 'Trial proof before signature' to the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club show in Chicago in 1900 (), and to a show in Philadelphia in 1902. 15 In London, Obach & Co. showed another impression in 1903.Impressions were also shown at the Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death, including two exhibited at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, one 'Before the signature' and the other, 'With the signature,"Whistler, 1859."' Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935) lent to the Boston show in 1904, and John Charles Sigismund Day (1826-1908) to the London Memorial in 1905. 16
13: New York 1881 (cat. no. 71)
14: New York 1898 (cat. no. 47).
15: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 47); Philadelphia 1902 (cat. no. 947 (50)).
16: New York 1904a (cat. no. 52, 52b); Boston 1904 (cat. no. 44); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 50).
SALES & COLLECTORS
The British Museum acquired a good impression, with prominent burr, in 1872 (). Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904) probably acquired his first state around the same time ().
). Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904) probably acquired his first state around the same time (). At the sale of the collection of the late Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d.1891)
in 1892 a 'first' and 'third state' were bought by Edmund F. Deprez (1851-1915) for
£15.15.0 and £3.5.0 respectively. 17 A 'Très belle épreuve' of Fumette, Standing was sold at auction in the Goncourt sale at the Hotel Drouot in Paris on 30 April-1 May 1897 (lot 290).
17: Sotheby’s, 3 March 1892 (lots 104 and 105).
Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) owned a first state, which was later owned by Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937) and finally Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971) () who gave it to the National Gallery of Art. Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought a fine, richly inked impression with strong burr, which had come from the collection of Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910), in 1898 () and which passed with his collection to the Freer Gallery of Art. Another second state was acquired, probably from Wunderlich's, by Pauline Kohlsaat Palmer (1882-1956) () and was later bequeathed by Arthur Macdougall Wood (d. 2007) to the Art Institute of Chicago.
) who gave it to the National Gallery of Art. Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought a fine, richly inked impression with strong burr, which had come from the collection of Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910), in 1898 () and which passed with his collection to the Freer Gallery of Art. Another second state was acquired, probably from Wunderlich's, by Pauline Kohlsaat Palmer (1882-1956) () and was later bequeathed by Arthur Macdougall Wood (d. 2007) to the Art Institute of Chicago.