Rag Pickers, Quartier Mouffetard, Paris, 1858

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint in black on laid paper

Dimensions

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

sheet: 20.32 × 14.61 cm (8 × 5 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 29, state v/v

Accession Number

2015.19.1491

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in plate: Whistler / 1858; lower right edge in graphite by unknown hand: 623; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: K 11 - The Little Rag Gatherers; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 15

Marks and Labels

stamped center verso in black ink: F.B.B. [circled]

Provenance

(Frederick Keppel & Co., New York); Frank B. Bristow, Falls Church, Virginia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1968; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bristow, Frank B.
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Frederick Keppel & Co.

Exhibition History

1990: Haden, Whistler, Pennell: Three Master Printmakers in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1990, no. 11, repro

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 23.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 29, v/v. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk