Documents associated with: 101st exhibition, Ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artistes vivants, Palais des Champs Elysées, Paris, 1883
Record 2 of 13
System Number: 07936
Date: [April/May 1883?][1]
Author: JW
Place: London
Recipient: Théodore Duret[2]
Place: [Paris?]
Repository: Library of Congress
Call Number: Manuscript Division, Pennell-Whistler Collection, PWC 1/30/2
Document Type: ALS[3]
HOGARTH CLUB,
27 ALBEMARLE STREET.
W.
Mon cher Duret -
Voilà un siècle que je ne vous vois pas -
Si cela ne vous est pas impossible passez donc chez moi demain matin - ou dans l'apres midi - J'envoie le portrait de ma mère[4] à Paris [p. 2] pour le Salon - et à propos - je n'ai pas l'addresse de Durand Ruel[5] -
En tout cas envoyez la moi -
J'ai été absent - à la campagne -
Tout à vous
J Mc.N Whistler
[butterfly signature]
13, Tite Street, Chelsea
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Translation:
My dear Duret -
It is a century since I have seen you -
If it is not impossible for you, do come to see me tomorrow morning - or afternoon - I am sending the portrait of my mother to Paris [p. 2] for the Salon - and on this subject - I do not have Durand Ruel's address -
In any case send it to me -
I have been away - in the country -
Yours truly,
J Mc.N Whistler
[butterfly signature]
Notes:
1. [April/May 1883?]
Dated from reference to Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother (YMSM 101) (see note below); dated by Duret, incorrectly, as 3 March 1881.
2. Théodore Duret
Théodore Duret (1838-1927), art critic and collector [more].
3. ALS
Written at right-angles to printed address. This letter was published in MacDonald, Margaret F., and Joy Newton, 'Correspondence Duret-Whistler,' Gazette des Beaux-Arts, November 1987, pp. 150-64, at p. 153.
4. portrait de ma mère
Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother (YMSM 101) was exhibited at the 101st exhibition, Ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artistes vivants, Palais des Champs Elysées, Paris, 1883 (cat. no. 2441).
5. Durand Ruel's address
Paris firm of art dealers located at No. 1, rue de la Paix.