Stéphane Mallarmé (No. 1) / James McNeill Whistler
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1993/2.34
- Title
- Stéphane Mallarmé (No. 1)
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1834-1903
- Medium and Support
- transfer lithograph on chine collé
- Object Creation Date
- 1892
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Inscription
- Signed on the stone, l.r.: butterfly Blind stamp, to lower left of image: Belfond & Cie.
- Dimensions
- 31.8 cm x 24.6 cm (12 1/2 in. x 9 11/16 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Primary Object Type
- portrait
- Secondary Object Classification
- Secondary Object Type
- black and white print
- Physical Description
- This image is a portrait of a seated man with short hair, mustache and goatee. There is no indication of surroundings, although the sitter must be near a wall, as his figure casts a shadow behind him to the right.
- Subject Matter
- Whistler met the Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé around 1888 through an introduction from the painter Claude Monet. Mallarmé translated Whistler’s Ten O’Clock lecture into French, and artist and writer became close friends. When Mallarmé’s volume Vers et Prose was prepared for publication in 1894, Whistler agreed to provide a lithographic portrait of Mallarmé for the frontispiece of the first edition. Although the zigzag diagonal shading suggests spontaneity and speed of execution, the portrait was created over several sittings. It was, however, considered by those who knew the writer to be a faithful likeness.
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1024 x 1536
- File Size
- 111 KB
- Record
- 1993/2.34
- Link to this Item
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"Stéphane Mallarmé (No. 1); James McNeill Whistler." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1993-sl-2.34/1993_2.34.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 10, 2024.
