Rag Pickers, Quartier Mouffetard, Paris
date: label: Date
content: 1858
name: label: Artist
content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
notes: label: Edition/State
content: 5, 4
label: Label
content: Whistler arrived in Paris in 1855 during the first phase of a radical reconfiguration of the French capital that took place over the course of the next half century. Swept up in fresh currents of naturalism and realism, he joined Gustave Courbet, Henri Fantin-Latour, Edouard Manet, and other artists seeking motifs drawn from everyday life in the oldest, poorest parts of the city. Visiting a squalid neighborhood that had yet to be revitalized, Whistler began his fifty-year commitment to depicting rag shops and junk stores. He later added figures to this empty space in 1861 before exhibiting the print in London.
label: Label
content: Whistler etchings are identified by "G" numbers as assigned in "James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonn&‌eacute;," 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 4 of 5.
label: Provenance
content: To 1901
label: Provenance
content: Frederick Keppel and Co., London, England, and New York to 1901 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1901 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Frederick Keppel and Co. in 1901 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] See Original Whistler List, Etchings, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Provenance
content: [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.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Exhibition History
content: Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change (November 18, 2023 to May 4, 2024)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Frederick Keppel and Co. (1868-1940) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: United States
topic: label: Topic
content: etching (printing process)
label: Topic
content: United States
label: Topic
content: American Art
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
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content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1901.167
objectType: label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching; ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 15.3 x 8.9 cm (6 x 3 1/2 in)