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Title: Life of James McNeill Whistler,
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Pennell, Elizabeth Robins,
Subjects: American Art
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
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Whistler whenever wewere in Paris. At the Rue du Bac we were struck by the few Frenchartists at his Sunday afternoons and the predominance of Americansand English. It seemed to us that French artists might have been morecordial and the French nation more sensible of the fact that a distin-guished foreign artist had come to France. During his life at least oneor two Americans, one a rich amateur, were made Commanders of theLegion of Honour, while he remained an Officer. Others were madeforeign Members of the Academy of Fine Arts, but this, the highesthonour for artists in France, was never offered to him, nor was he electedto International Juries. Y\ith a few French and foreign artists his relations were friendly :Boldini, Helleu, Puvis de Chavannes, Rodin, Alfred Stevens, Aman-Jean ; but the greater number were content to express their appreciationat a distance. Mrs. Whistler spoke little French, and few Frenchartists speak any English. The men whom Whistler saw most were not316 (1893
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PORTRAIT OF LADY COLIX CAMPBELLHARMONY IN \YHITL AND IVORY OIL (DESTROYED) From a photograph lent by Pickford R. Waller, Esq. (See page 259) Paris painters. Viele-Griffin, Octave Mirbeau, Arsene Alexandre, the Comtede Montesquiou, Rodenbach came to the Rue du Bac. Old friends,Drouet and Duret, were sometimes there, though not often—his intimacywith them and Oulevey was not really renewed until after Mrs. Whistlersdeath. But of all who came, none endeared himself so much to Whistleras Stephane Mallarme, poet, critic, friend, admirer. Once, at Whistlerssuggestion, he visited us in London, and, looking from our windowsto the Thames, declared he could understand Whistler better. Officialpeople strayed in from the Embassies, mostly English. Americanauthors and American collectors appeared on Sundays. Mr. Howells,once or twice, came with his son and his daughter, of whom Whistlermade a lithograph. Journalists, English and American, wandered in.And English and American artists came, or tri

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