Drouet
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American, 1834 - 1903
1859
Etching and drypoint on wove paper
Plate: 8 7/8 × 6 in. (22.5 × 15.2 cm)
Sheet: 11 3/4 × 7 11/16 in. (29.8 × 19.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Hersey Egginton in memory of her son, Everett Egginton, Class of 1921
PR.954.20.592
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, in plate, lower right: Whistler 1859; inscribed, in plate, lower center: Drouet sculpteur; upper right: faint inscription
Course History
SART 27, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2012
SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2013
SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2012
SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I-Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2014
SART 27, SART 28, SART 74, Printmaking I, Printmaking II, Printmaking III, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2014
Exhibition History
James McNeill Whistler: Works from the Dartmouth Collection, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 9-March 13, 1988.
Manet and His Time, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ArtH 87, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29, 1994-July 9, 1994.
Nineteenth Century American Prints, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 25-June 12, 1977.
Nineteenth Century Prints from the Permanent Collection, Art 52, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 12-March 25, 1979.
Portraits at Dartmouth, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 10-April 16, 1978.
Publication History
George T.M. Shackelford. "Nineteenth-Century American Prints from the Dartmouth College Collection," 1977, pp.52-53, no.40, illus.
Arthur R. Blumenthal, Portraits at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1978, p. 69, no. 63.
Provenance
Collected by Hersey Egginton (1875-1951); bequeathed to his wife, Mary E. (Benner) Egginton (1875-1962), Garden City, New York, 1951; given to present collection, 1954.
Catalogue Raisonne
E. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler, San Francisco, 1978, no. 55. H. Mansfield, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909, no. 55.
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