Rag Pickers, Quartier Mouffetard, Paris
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Period
1858 -
Geography
United States -
Material
Etching; ink on paper -
Dimension
H x W: 15.5 x 9.3 cm (6 1/8 x 3 11/16 in) -
Accession Number
F1894.35 -
EDAN ID
edanmdm:fsg_F1894.35
Object Details
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Artist
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) -
Edition/State
5, 5 -
Label
Whistler etchings are identified by "G" numbers as assigned in "James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonne," by Margaret F. McDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock (University of Glasgow, 2012), http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. This print is G29 state 5 of 5. -
Provenance
To 1894Frederick Keppel and Co., London, England, and New York to 1894 [1]From 1894 to 1919Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Frederick Keppel and Co. in June 1894 [2]From 1920Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]Notes:[1] See List of Whistler Objects Transferred to Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. This object was purchased from Frederick Keppel and Co. in June 1894, but kept in the Reserve Section until January 1921, when it was transferred to the main collection and given a registration number of that year.[2] See note 1.[3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery. -
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art Collection -
Previous custodian or owner
Frederick Keppel and Co. (1868-1940) (C.L. Freer source)Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919) -
Origin
United States -
Credit Line
Gift of Charles Lang Freer -
Type
Print -
Restrictions and Rights
CC0 - Creative Commons (CC0 1.0)
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