Object Details
- 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 1904
- L. Dumont, Paris, to 1904 [1]
- From 1904 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from L. Dumont in Paris in 1904 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer 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)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Artist
- Beatrice Godwin Whistler (1857-1896)
- Date
- 1894
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Ink on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 19.7 x 7.3 cm (7 3/4 x 2 7/8 in)
- Type
