Burning Incense to Whistler

Prints and Drawings

1892/1898

Max Beerbohm
English, 1872-1956

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Max Beerbohm
Title: Burning Incense to Whistler
Place: England (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1892–1898
Medium: Pen and black ink on cream laid paper, laid down on cream board
Inscriptions: Inscribed "MONSIEUR / LE / DISCIPLE" on recto, upper left, in ink
Dimensions: 31.3 × 19.6 cm (12 3/8 × 7 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Walter S. Brewster
Reference Number: 1933.241

Meg Hausberg and Victoria Sancho Lobis. Whistler and Roussel: Linked Visions. Department of Publishing of The Art Institute of Chicago, 2015 (https://publications.artic.edu/whistler/reader/linkedvisions ; Accessed August 24, 2015), Checklist para. 13, cat. 12.3 (ill.).

Beloit, Wis., Wright Museum of Art, “Life Imitates Art, The Aesthetic Movement, 1890-1900,” March 13, 1987-April 16, 1987.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Whistler and Roussel: Linked Visions,” June 20-September 27, 2015, Checklist para. 13, cat. 12.3 (ill.).

Sold by Albert Roullier Gallery, Chicago, to Walter Stanton Brewster (1872-1954, Lugt Suppl., 2651 a-b), Chicago, April 20, 1928 [invoice]; given to the Art Institute, February 1933.

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