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Description: | Unmounted (1) s. in plate; b.l. "Whistler 1859"
(2) inscr. on flyleaf of volume; "S. t 434 / 789 / R Dunthorne"
(3) inscr. on binding of volume; "WHISTLER'S ETCHINGS" CRE WHISTLER, James McNeill; (American; 1834-1903) PUB Fine Art Society; (London) Whistler worked in Paris during the autumn of 1859 and the majority of the etchings he made were self-portraits or portraits of his friends. The sitter in this image is Zacharie Astruc, a painter and sculptor, as well as being the editor of the journal 'L'Artiste'. As with many other works made at this time, the artist?s primary focus is on the face of the sitter, to the exclusion of peripheral detail. In its original state this etching was published by the Fine Art Society in 1879. This impression is taken from the cancelled plate and was bound in a volume with GLAHA 49975 - 50030, with a description by Rosalind Birnie Philip of how she came by them. This volume of cancelled impressions has been used as evidence that the plates themselves were cancelled. (See also GLAHA 49938 - 49971/49973/49974/50257/50310).
Birnie Philip Bequest, 1958. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | PORTRAIT : ZACHARIE ASTRUC : CANCELLED PLATE : ART CRITIC : JOURNALIST : EDITOR : PAINTER : SCULPTOR : WHISTLER CENTENARY : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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