Rag Pickers, Quartier Mouffetard, Paris, 1858

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint in black on laid paper

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.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Julius Garfinckel)

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 29, state v/v

Accession Number

2015.19.423

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

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

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

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Frederick Keppel & Co.
Garfinckel, Julius

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