Print of the Day!! Thurs, Feb 20, 2025 is by printmaker Eduard Henri Leon (1873-1968); "Portrait of Carlyle", 1905, mezzotint after Whistler.

Print of the Day!! Thursday, February 20, 2025. is by French printmaker Eduard Henri Leon (1873-1968). Another version of yesterday's Print of the Day!! This image done 27 years later, two years after Whistler's death. ?

"Portrait of Carlyle" (After Whistler's 'Arrangement in Grey and Black #2)' is an intaglio, a color mezzotint, by French printmaker Eduard Henri Leon (1873-1968), done in 1905. The platemark measures 18 x 14-15/16 inches. It is pencil signed by the artist beneath the lower platemark. There is a remarque in the lower center margin with an open book, titled "Sartor Resartus / Anno 1905." This refers to Carlyle's novel of the same title (The Tailor Re-tailored) from 1836. It was published with the permission of the Glasgow City Council, or 'The Glasgow Corporation', which owned the painting, and was published by the French publisher "F. Gittler." It was printed by the artist and assistants at?Cercle de la Librarie (blindstamp lower left), Lugt 438, in an unstated edition on a sheet of fibrous, antique-white wove paper that measures 22 x 17-1/4 inches. The gallery inventory number for this work is 8606.

This scarce color intaglio by printmaker Eduard Henri Leon is available from the gallery for purchase. ?

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Though most printmaking references have concentrated on Whistler's worldwide influence on creative printmaking, his work also influenced painters and artist - craftsmen as well, as in this work, a color etching, reproducing one of Whistler's more famous paintings.

The mezzotint was published with the permission of the Glasgow City Council, or 'The Glasgow Corporation', which owned the painting. It was published by the French publisher "F. Gittler." In 1878 Whistler and printmaker Richard Josey collaborated on an earlier mezzotint of the same subject in anticipated editio of 300. Leon's image, executed with more color, varies from the Josey/Whistler composition in many of the details.

James McNeill Whistler painted "Arrangement in Grey and Black, No.2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle" in oil on canvas in 1872-3 and it now resides in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, Scotland. It depicts the Scottish social critic, philosopher and historian Thomas Carlyle in a composition similar to that of Whistler's Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Artist's Mother, painted in 1871.

The Wikipedia entry for the painting states:

"By the time he sat for Whistler, Thomas Carlyle had lived in Chelsea, London, for 47 years, and was one of its most recognized residents. He lived at 24 Cheyne Row, now Carlyle's House, which is preserved as a museum, very near to Lindsey House, now 96 Cheyne Walk, where Whistler had his studio.

Accompanied by a mutual friend, Carlyle visited Whistler's studio, viewed the painting of the artist's mother, and according to Whistler 'He liked the simplicity of it, the old lady sitting with her hands in her lap, and said he would like to be painted. And he came one morning soon, and he sat down, and I had the canvas ready, and my brushes and palette, and Carlyle said, 'And now, mon, fire away!'"

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