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Z. Astruc, Editor of 'L'Artiste' | ||
Number: | 36 | |
Date: | 1859 | |
Medium: | drypoint | |
Size: | 230 x 154 mm | |
Signed: | 'Whistler - ' at lower left | |
Inscribed: | '1859.' at lower left | |
Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
No. of States: | 3 | |
Known impressions: | 21 | |
Catalogues: | K.53; M.53; T.66; W.49 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (21) |
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'Monsieur Astruc, Redacteur du Journal L'Artiste ' (1860, R.A.). 1
'Astruc' (1863, Whistler). 2
'"Astruc" - Literateur' (1870s, Whistler). 3
'Astruc' (1877, Whistler). 4
'Astruc. Literateur' (1881, Union League Club). 5
'Astruc, a Literary Man' (1886, Frederick Wedmore (1844-1921)). 6
'Astruc' (1909, Howard Mansfield (1849-1938)). 7
'Z. Astruc, Editor of 'L'Artiste' (2009, Whistler Etching Project).
'Z. Astruc, Editor of L'Artiste ' identifies the portrait clearly, and is the preferred title.
In addition there is one incorrect title, 'Davis', recorded by Ralph Thomas, Jr (1840-1876), which can be totally discounted: Thomas confused the etching with Mr Mann [73]. 8
1: London RA 1860 .
2: Whistler to W. H. Carpenter, 3 August 1863, GUW #11109.
4: Whistler to C. A. Howell, 14-16 November [1877], GUW #13668.
5: New York 1881 (cat. no. 70).
6: Wedmore 1886 A (cat. no. 49).
7: Mansfield 1909 (cat. no. 53).
8: Thomas 1874 (cat. no. 66).
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Astruc appears in Un atelier aux Batignolles, painted in 1870 by Whistler's closest friend in Paris, Ignace-Henri-Jean-Théodore Fantin-Latour (1836-1904). The studio group included Edouard Manet (1832-1883), Astruc, , Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) and Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (1840-1902), and Claude Oscar Monet (1840-1926). 9
painted a profile head of Astruc in 1861. 10 Joseph Auguste Bracquemond (1813-1914) etched a striking portrait of Astruc in the 1860s, reproduced below. 11
© Trustees of the British Museum.
9: Musée d'Orsay, RF 729.
10: Musée d'Orsay, RF 1950 36.
11: Béraldi 9.1, British Museum 1865,1209.684.
12: L'homme au cigare, Sotheby's, New York, 3 November 2010 (lot 138).
13: Musée d'Orsay, PHO 1983 165 510 10.