Mallarmé |  Hunterian Art Gallery (54940) | |
| Number: | 461 | |
| Date: | 1891/1892 | |
| Medium: | unbitten; drawn with an etching needle through ground that has been removed | |
| Size: | 102 x 67 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 12 | |
| Catalogues: | K.-; M.-; T.-; W.- | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (12) | ||
KEYWORD
man standing, portrait, reading.
TITLE
Two titles are recorded, as follows:
'Mallarmé' (1887/1888, Whistler). 3
'Mallarmé standing' (1935/1976, Hunterian Art Gallery). 4
Whistler's title 'Mallarmé' is preferred.
'Mallarmé' (1887/1888, Whistler). 3
'Mallarmé standing' (1935/1976, Hunterian Art Gallery). 4
Whistler's title 'Mallarmé' is preferred.
3: Written on the envelope containing the plate, Hunterian Art Gallery.
4: Collection records, Hunterian Art Gallery.
DESCRIPTION
A three-quarter length study of a man with a beard, standing turned to the right, with head bent, and reading a journal.
SITTER
Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898); the drypoint may have been intended as a possible frontispiece for Vers et Prose . 5 Mallarmé posed to Whistler for Stéphane Mallarmé [462], and for two lithographs, Stéphane Mallarmé, No. 2 [c059] and Stéphane Mallarmé [c060].
5: Glasgow 1973 (cat. nos. 5-6).