La Mère Gérard, 1858

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series Title

Twelve Etchings from Nature

Medium

etching in black on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 12.7 × 8.89 cm (5 × 3 1/2 in.)

sheet: 22.7 × 18.26 cm (8 15/16 × 7 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

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

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 24, iv/iv

Accession Number

2015.19.316

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Whistler; lower center in plate: Imp. Delâtre. Rue St. Jacques. 171.; lower left corner in graphite by unknown hand: P.5642 / 9726

Provenance

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1928; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 11.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 24, iv/iv. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk