
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching in black on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 12.7 × 8.89 cm (5 × 3 1/2 in.)
sheet: 21.27 × 13.65 cm (8 3/8 × 5 3/8 in.) -
Accession Number
2015.19.514
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Catalogue Raisonné
MacDonald 2012, no. 24, state iv/iv
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
James Parmelee, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1941; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1982
Whistler’s World: The Master’s Etchings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, no. 2
1990
Haden, Whistler, Pennell: Three Master Printmakers in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1990, no. 2, repro
Bibliography
1910
Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 11.
2012
MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 24, iv/iv. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk
Inscriptions
lower left in plate: Whistler; lower center in plate: Imp. Delâtre, Rue St. Jacques. 171.; lower center edge in graphite by unknown hand: Mère Gérard
Wikidata ID
Q77013533