La Marchande de Moutarde |  National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (1943.3.8410) | |
| Number: | 20 | |
| Date: | 1858 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 157 x 90 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler' at lower left | |
| Inscribed: | 'Imp. Delatre. Rue St. Jacques. 171.' (2-3); crossed out (4); removed (5) | |
| Set/Publication: | 'French Set', 1858 | |
| No. of States: | 5 | |
| Known impressions: | 75 | |
| Catalogues: | K.22; M.22; T.11; W.16 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (75) | ||
La Marchande de Moutarde is based on two drawings done in Cologne during Whistler's etching tour of the Rhineland between 14 August and 7 October 1858, La Marchande de Poterie à Cologne [m0272] (reproduced below), and La Marchande de Moutarde [m0273].
It is not known if he etched the copper plate in Cologne. It is more likely that the etching process was carried out on Whistler's return to Paris. 1
1: Lochnan 1984, p. 46.
The etching was published in Douze eaux-fortes d'après Nature (the 'French Set') in Paris in November 1858. It was republished in London in 1888.