Rag Pickers, Quartier Mouffetard, Paris

1858

James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

James McNeill Whistler

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

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

  • 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.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.298

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    MacDonald 2012, no. 29, v/v

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q77012923

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