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La Mère Gérard

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Accession no: 1970.121.74
State: 4/4

Collection credit:Gift of Margaret C. Buell, Helen L. king, and Sybil A. Walk, 1970  
Image credit:Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art  
Provenance:Bought from F.S.Haden by Thomas DeKay Winans (1820-1878); Celeste Marguerite Hutton (1855-1916); Elsie Celeste Hutton; given by Margaret C. Buell, Helen L. King, and Sybil A. Walk to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970.  

 

Paper size:156 x 114 mm  
Plate mark size:128 x 89 mm  
Other size:127 x 88 chine mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:tan on off-white  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):chine on wove  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:no  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:minimal, at the edge  
Note on foul biting:some dots and scrapes at the edges  
Print note:Formerly in "Winans Scrapbook" p. 24; good impression, light burnishing marks visible  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whistler'  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:NO  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:'Imp. Delatre. Rue St. [superscript 't'] Jacques. 171.' ('J' reversed)  
Whistler's signature on paper:no  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:no  
Tab signed/inscribed:no  
Note on the tab:  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:n/a  
Dealers' stock nos:n/a  
Misc inscriptions by others:n/a  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0110430  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.