Henri Belfond

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Life:

Henri Belfond was a lithographic printer in the rue Gaillon, Paris. He printed several of Whistler's lithographs between October 1891 and the summer of 1893: Nude Model, Back View c045 Draped Figure, Standing c046, Lady and Child c055, Draped Figure, Reclining c056, Red House, Paimpol c066 and Yellow House, Lannion c067. Whistler thought well of Belfond but later quarrelled with the firm (#03347). By November 1894 it had gone out of business.

Bibliography:

Spink, Nesta R., Harriet K. Stratis, and Martha Tedeschi, The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, (gen. eds, Harriet K. Stratis and Martha Tedeschi), 2 vols., Chicago, 1998 .