Count Robert de Montesquiou
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Period
1894 -
Geography
United States -
Material
Ink on paper -
Dimension
H x W: 19.7 x 7.3 cm (7 3/4 x 2 7/8 in) -
Accession Number
F1904.71 -
EDAN ID
edanmdm:fsg_F1904.71
Object Details
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Artist
Beatrice Godwin Whistler (1857-1896) -
Edition/State
1, 1 -
Label
For many years scholars and collectors believed that this lithograph was by Whistler, but recent research has convincingly suggested that it was actually drawn by Beatrix. Before their marriage Beatrix had been one of Whistler's students. She worked in a similar style, but the vigorous downstrokes in this version of the print are much more emphatic than the shorter, softer, moodier lines in Whistler's version. Whistler's lithograph includes his butterfly signature next to Montesquiou's right hand; Beatrix's does not. -
Provenance
To 1904L. Dumont, Paris, to 1904 [1]From 1904 to 1919Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from L. Dumont in Paris in 1904 [2]From 1920Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]Notes:[1] See Original Whistler List, Lithographs, pg. 28, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.[2] See note 1.[3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery. -
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art Collection -
Exhibition History
Whistler in Paris: Lithographs from the Belle Epoque, 1891-1896 (February 21 to August 15, 2004) -
Previous custodian or owner
L. Dumont (C.L. Freer source)Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919) -
Origin
United States -
Credit Line
Gift of Charles Lang Freer -
Type
Print -
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