La Marchande de Moutarde

1858

James McNeill Whistler

Associated Names
James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

The image shows two women in an arched doorway. The woman on the left is angled towards the other. She has her hair in a bun and is wearing a patterned dress. The woman on the right is facing the left. She is wearing a gown and a bonnet. The interior has shelves and containers. The exterior has rustic brickwork.

Media Options

This object’s media is free and in the public domain. Read our full Open Access policy for images.
Not on view See artworks now on view

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching in black grey greenish fleck wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 15.24 x 8.89 cm (6 x 3 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 22.23 x 14.61 cm (8 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.8412

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    MacDonald 2012, no. 20, state iii/v

  • Series Title

    Twelve Etchings From Nature

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge [1845?-1924], Glasgow. Albert W. Scholle [d. 1910], New York; 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, iii/v. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Whilstler / Imp. Delatre. Rue St. Jacques. 171.

Wikidata ID

Q65021828

You may be interested in

Loading Results