M12664: Drouet

Identification and Creation

Object Number

M12664

People

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)

Title

Drouet

Other Titles

Alternate Title: C. L. Drouet, Sculptor
Alternate Title: Charles Drouet

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1859

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/262846

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Etching and drypoint printed in black ink with plate tone on white antique laid paper

Technique

Etching

Dimensions

plate: 22.5 × 15.3 cm (8 7/8 × 6 in.)
sheet: 25 × 19.9 cm (9 13/16 × 7 13/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: lower sheet margin, right of center: 40 [or Ho]
• inscription: verso, lower right corner, graphite: : a82509
• inscription: upper bright corner, drypoint; worn away practically to the point of illegibility: Whistler Maitre Eaufortier
• inscription: at lower right, etched: Whistler 1859.
• inscription: lower area, to left of center, etched: Drouet. Sculpteur.
• collector's mark: verso, black stamp with accession number written in graphite:
  THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 12,664 [Lugt 936]
  

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Edwin de T. Bechtel, (347a), Collector, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1951.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State

Glasgow ii/ii

Standard Reference Number

Kennedy 55, Glasgow 35

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edwin de T. Bechtel

Accession Year

1951

Object Number

M12664

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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