Antoine Emile Plassan
Artist’s Palette
1882
Physical Qualities
Oil and wood, 13 x 9-1/4 in.
Credit Line
The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number
1996.45.351
The sketch of the red-haired woman on this palette is said to represent Maud Franklin, Whistler’s model and mistress through the late 1870s and 1880s. When Whistler abandoned Maud in 1888 in order to marry Beatrix Godwin, widow of the architect Edward W. Godwin, Lucas terminated his lengthy association with the flamboyant artist, siding with Maud whom he supported both emotionally and financially for a time.
Lucas and Antoine Plassan, a painter of intimate domestic genre scenes, enjoyed a relationship of several decades. Through Lucas, William T.
Walters acquired a number of paintings and sketches by the artist.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art,
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, "A Baltimorean in Paris: George A. Lucas, Art Agent 1860-1909", January 28-March 11, 1979.
Sona Johnston, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "A View Toward Paris: The Lucas Collection of 19th-Century French Art", October 1, 2006-December 31, 2006.
Sona Johnston, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "A View Toward Paris: The Lucas Collection of 19th-Century French Art", October 1, 2006-December 31, 2006.
