La Marchande de Moutarde

1858

James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching in dark brown on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.8409

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    MacDonald 2012, no. 20, state i/v

Artwork history & notes

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

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

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q65021826

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