La Marchande de Moutarde, 1858

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series Title

Twelve Etchings From Nature

Medium

etching in dark brown on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 15.24 x 8.89 cm (6 x 3 1/2 in.)

sheet: 22.23 x 17.78 cm (8 3/4 x 7 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 20, state i/v

Accession Number

1943.3.8409

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Whistler; lower right in graphite: [the artist's butterfly]

Provenance

Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge [1845?-1924], Glasgow, probably before 1902. Albert W. Scholle [d. 1910], New York. Bought by Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

MacGeorge, Bernard Buchanan
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Scholle, Albert W.

Exhibition History

1931: Etchings, Lithographs, Original Drawings, and Autograph Letters by James A. McNeill Whistler, The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1931.

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 22.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 20, i/v. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk