Rag Pickers, Quartier Mouffetard, Paris, 1858

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint in black on wove paper

Dimensions

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

sheet: 21.59 × 14.29 cm (8 1/2 × 5 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund)

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 29, v/v

Accession Number

2015.19.298

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in plate: Whistler / 1858; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: P.3925; lower center edge in graphite by unknown hand: The Ragpickers

Provenance

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1927; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Maxwell, Mary E.

Exhibition History

1952: Whistler, Hunter Gallery of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1952

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