Documents associated with: 4th [Exhibition], Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1894
Record 14 of 35
System Number: 03287
Date: [25 April 1894][1]
Author: JW
Place: Paris
Recipient: William McNeill Whistler[2]
Place: London
Repository: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Call Number: FGA Whistler 169
Credit Line: Charles Lang Freer Papers, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.: Gift of the Estate of Charles Lang Freer
Document Type: ALS
110. Rue du Bac. Paris
It will be all right my dear Willie I hope - for Duret[3] is seeing to the sale of the little picture[4] - and I have a great success at the Salon[5] with Montesquiou's portrait[6] - So hold on! - for these things take of course a little time - especially when we want them -
I live in an amazing hurry just now - and have to bolt -
Keep a stiff upper lip - and it is sure to come all right -
Abut the etchings[7] I really dont know - but perhaps you might just send over to me tomorrow the little package - and I might see -
Love from both
Always affectionately
Jim.
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Envelope:
W. McNeill Whistler Esq. M.D.17. Wimpole Street.
Cavendish Square.
London.
Angleterre.
[stamp:] POSTE / 25 / REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE
[postmark:] PARIS 36 / 5. DU BAC / 5E ' 25 / AVR / 94
Notes:
1. [25 April 1894]
Dated from postmark.
2. William McNeill Whistler
William McNeill Whistler (1836-1900), physician, JW's brother [more]. He was in urgent need of money at this time.
3. Duret
Théodore Duret (1838-1927), art critic and collector [more].
4. the little picture
Whistler in his Studio (YMSM 63). It was eventually sold to the Goupil Gallery, London, in December 1896 for £400 (see #07023).
5. Salon
4th Exhibition, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1894.
6. Montesquiou's portrait
Arrangement in Black and Gold: Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac (YMSM 398).
7. etchings
These had been mentioned in an earler letter to Helen E. Whistler, #11656.