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Hôtel Lallement, Bourges | ||
Number: | 396 | |
Date: | 1888 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 165 x 271 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at upper left | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 4 | |
Known impressions: | 7 | |
Catalogues: | K.399; M.398 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (7) |
KEYWORD
TITLE
Whistler was apparently unclear about the spelling of the building.
Variations in the title, including spelling mistakes, are as follows:
'Hotel Allement' (1888, Whistler). 2
'Hotel Alimant, Bourges' and 'Hotel Alemaunt' (1888-1891, Whistler). 3
'Hotel Lallement, Bourges' (1893, Chicago). 4
'Hotel Allement' (1899, Frederick Wedmore (1844-1921)). 5
'Hotel Allemand, Bourges' (1900, Caxton Club). 6
'Hôtel Lallement, Bourges' (1909, Howard Mansfield (1849-1938)). 7
'Hôtel Lallemant, Bourges' is the preferred title, with corrected spelling.
The Caxton title is incorrect (presumably they thought it was a German hotel).
3: Lists, [1887/1888], 18 July 1889, [1890/1891], GUW #13233, #13235, #13236.
4: Chicago 1893 (cat. no. 2261).
5: Wedmore 1899 (cat. no. 331).
6: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 295).
7: Mansfield 1909 (cat. no. 398).
DESCRIPTION
SITE
Whistler's view shows the cour d'honneur. The roundels contain terracotta heads of Roman emperors, comparable to Giuliano da Majano's heads at Sutton Court in Surrey, UK. 8
Karl Baedeker's Southern France from the Loire to the Spanish and Italian Frontiers including Corsica: Handbook for Travellers reported in 1891:
8: Paul Vitry, Tours et les chateaux de Touraine, Paris, 1907, pp. 320-321; Michel Bulteau, L'Hotel Lallemant de Bourges. Historique et symbolique d'une demeure a l'antique, Paris, 1984, pl. 2, pp. 79-82.
DISCUSSION
9: Etching and drypoint, Delteil 55, Schneiderman 31.