La Marchande de Moutarde

1858

James McNeill Whistler

Associated Names
James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

The image depicts two women shown from head to toe. They are positioned in front of a doorway, with one woman standing on the left outside the entrance, holding a basket or tray, and the other woman standing inside on the right, partially leaning forward. The woman on the left has her hair tied back and wears a long dress with elbow-length sleeves. The woman on the right has her hair covered with a headscarf and wears a long gown. The scene is framed by a textured doorway that leads into a dark interior with shelves filled with jars and containers. The background outside the entrance consists of detailed linework suggestive of a brick wall or textured architectural surface.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

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

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.8410

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    MacDonald 2012, no. 20, state ii/v

  • Series Title

    Twelve Etchings From Nature

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Royal Collection, Windsor; (sold to Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1906);(sold to H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock no. 41949, 1906). Theodore de Witt, 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, ii/v. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q65021827

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