Nursemaid and Child, 1859

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint in black on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 9.68 × 13.18 cm (3 13/16 × 5 3/16 in.)

sheet: 19.37 × 24.77 cm (7 5/8 × 9 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Julius Garfinckel)

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 42, state ii/ii

Accession Number

2015.19.420

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Whistler; lower right in graphite: Whistler imp.; lower right edge in graphite by unknown hand: Aqo34-56. 2 7 1/2 6 1/4; lower center verso in graphite by unknown hand: XII / 187

Marks and Labels

stamped center verso in black ink: HHB

Provenance

Henry Harper Benedict, New York; (Harlow, McDonald & Co., New York); Julius Garfinckel, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1938; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Benedict, Henry Harper
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Garfinckel, Julius

Exhibition History

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

1982: Whistler’s World: The Master’s Etchings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, no. 23

1990: Haden, Whistler, Pennell: Three Master Printmakers in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1990, no. 22, repro

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 37.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 42, ii/ii. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk