James McNeill Whistler. Stéphane Mallarmé. 1892. United States. Transfer lithograph in gray-black on grayish ivory wove paper, laid down on off-white plate paper (chine collé) Introduced by Claude Monet, the poet Mallarmé and Whistler became friends in 1887 and remained close until Mallarmé’s death in 1898. Each man played a role in the other’s publishing projects; Mallarmé translated the “Ten O’Clock” lecture into French, and Whistler produced this lithographic portrait for Mallarmé’s 1893 book of poems, Vers et prose.

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