Count Robert de Montesquiou, No. 2

1894

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Transfer lithograph with scraping, drawn on thin transparent transfer paper; only state (Chicago); printed in black ink on grayish ivory China paper
Dimensions: Image: 8 15/16 × 37 13/16 in. (22.7 × 96 cm) Sheet: 14 1/4 × 13 1/16 in. (36.2 × 33.1 cm)
Collection no.: 17.3.251
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Count Robert de Montesquiou, No. 2. Image credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Proportional resize and JPEG compression; full source frame retained.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Count Robert de Montesquiou, No. 2 — James Abbott McNeill Whistler. 1894.

Medium: Transfer lithograph with scraping, drawn on thin transparent transfer paper; only state (Chicago); printed in black ink on grayish ivory China paper. Dimensions: Image: 8 15/16 × 37 13/16 in. (22.7 × 96 cm) Sheet: 14 1/4 × 13 1/16 in. (36.2 × 33.1 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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