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La Marchande de Moutarde

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1898.233
State: 2/5

Collection credit:Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Image credit:Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Provenance:Probably acquired from Whistler by Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London; bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co., New York, (receipt, 9 November 1898), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, November 1898; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919.  

 

Paper size:216 x 144 mm  
Plate mark size:157 x 89 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:ivory  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:'modern' laid (post-1880); horizontal chain lines, little debris - even distribution; MS notes paper is same as 1891.6 (K22)  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:partial: three-pronged tip (like petals) [possibly bell or horn]  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:some plate tone on wall at left and on floor, pavement and wall beneath and to right of child  
Note on foul biting:mostly near plate edges at left right and bottom  
Print note:Faint, curved horizontal drypoint lines at bottom of girl's skirt and slight left-right diagonal drypoint lines on floor beneath woman to right of child.  

 

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.'  
Whistler's signature on paper:no  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:no  
Tab signed/inscribed:no  
Note on the tab:0  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:M. Smith records previous existence of inscription "S.H." in graphite on etching's margin. It was erased 1924.03.29.  
Collector's mark:no  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'W16 - 1st [underscored] State' on verso by C. L. Freer.  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K0220202  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.