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La Rétameuse

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1898.213)
Number: 26
Date: 1858
Medium: etching
Size: 112 x 89 mm
Signed: 'Whistler.' at lower right (2)
Inscribed: 'Imp. Delatre. Rue St. Jacques. 171.' at lower left (2)
Set/Publication: 'French Set', 1858
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 42
Catalogues: K.14; M.11; T.3; W.5
Impressions taken from this plate  (42)
La Rétameuse was etched in 1858 and published in Douze eaux-fortes d'après Nature (Twelve Etchings from Nature, the 'French Set') in November 1858.
Other portraits of this date include La Mère Gérard [24], Fumette [12], La Marchande de Moutarde [20] and La Vieille aux Loques [27].