The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0271
r.: Succès d'Erneste à Cologne; v.: Tracing of recto
Date
r.: Succès d'Erneste à Cologne; v.: Tracing of recto date from between August and October 1858.
r.: Succès d'Erneste à Cologne, Freer Gallery of Art
v.: Tracing of recto, Freer Gallery of Art
The drawing is the basis for the etching The Title Page for 'Douze Eaux Fortes d'après Nature' [22], which was dedicated to Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910) and printed by Auguste Delâtre (1822-1907) in November 1858.
The work is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 271).
Images
r.: Succès d'Erneste à Cologne, Freer Gallery of Art
v.: Tracing of recto, Freer Gallery of Art
The Title Page for 'Douze Eaux Fortes d'après Nature, etching (G.22)
Subject
Site
The city of Cologne in Germany.
Sitter
r.: Succès d'Erneste à Cologne, Freer Gallery of Art
The artist is probably Ernest Delannoy (d. 1869/1872), who accompanied Whistler on the Rhineland trip, although it could be a self-portrait. They dressed alike so they could pose for each other.
Technique
Composition
r.: Succès d'Erneste à Cologne, Freer Gallery of Art
v.: Tracing of recto
The Title Page for 'Douze Eaux Fortes d'après Nature, etching (G.22)
The drawing was traced as a basis for the etching The Title Page for 'Douze Eaux Fortes d'après Nature' [22], which was printed by Auguste Delâtre (1822-1907) in November 1858.
Conservation History
The sheet was probably taken from a sketchbook. Over fifty drawings, many in sketchbooks, most of which dated from 1857-1858, were apparently given to Whistler's half-sister Deborah and/or her husband, Francis Seymour Haden, and were later removed from the sketchbooks.
History
Provenance
- 1858: probably given to Deborah Delano Haden (1825-1908) or her husband Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910);
- 1898: sold through Wunderlich, New York dealers, to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919);
- 1919: bequeathed by C. L. Freer to the Freer Gallery of Art.
See further details in r.: Les Côtes à Dieppe; v.: Cliffs and building m0222.
Exhibitions
It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.
Due to the conditions of Freer's will, it cannot be lent to another venue.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 271) as 'r.: Succès d'Erneste à Cologne; v.: Tracing of recto'.
- Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2012, website (cat. no. 22).
Catalogues 1906-Present
- Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, pp. 27, 231, fig. 46, pl. 192.
Websites
- Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1898.154, as 'Succes d’Ernesti [sic] a Cologne'.
- Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2012, website (cat. no. 22).