James McNeill Whistler - [Reading by lamplight]
Summary
Print shows Whistler's half-sister, Deborah Delano Haden, née Whistler, reading at a table.
Exhibit caption (2014): With deft handling of line and light, painter/printmaker James McNeill Whistler created this sensitive portrait of his half-sister Deborah Delano Haden. He depicted her in a pool of lamplight, peering closely at a book. The red collector's mark belonged to Philippe Burty who became interested in Whistler's work in the early 1860s and in 1872 coined the term Japonisme. Both men were ardent admirers of Japanese art and aesthetics. This impression illustrates the 2nd of 3 states in MacDonald's online catalogue raisonné of Whistler's etchings. The Library's Whistler holdings include over 300 prints, about 40 drawings, and 400 letters by the artist, most of which came as gifts from Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell.
Title and other information from the Whistler Etching Project website: http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk.
Signed on plate.
Coll. marks: Howard Mansfield (Lugt 1342) and H. G. Whittemore (Lugt suppl. 1384a).
Kennedy, 32 (second state)
American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall... Baltimore : John Hopkins Press, 1970, p. 519.
Purchase; Pennell fund.
Forms part of: Pennell collection of Whistleriana (Library of Congress)
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