Rag Pickers, Quartier Mouffetard, Paris
1858
Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and drypoint in black on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 15.24 × 8.89 cm (6 × 3 1/2 in.)
sheet: 20.64 × 13.97 cm (8 1/8 × 5 1/2 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.423
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Catalogue Raisonné
MacDonald 2012, no. 29, state v/v
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Frederick Keppel & Co., New York); Julius Garfinckel, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1938; 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. 17
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
Inscriptions
center right in plate: Whistler 1858; lower center edge in graphite by unknown hand: 8625; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: A95953; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: EW
Wikidata ID
Q77012967