La Marchande de Moutarde
date: label: Date
content: 1858
name: label: Artist
content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
notes: label: Edition/State
content: 2, 2
label: Label
content: After his move to Paris in 1855, Whistler began a life-long exploration of old-fashioned, often dilapidated stores selling ordinary merchandise. Shown at the French Salon in 1859, an impression of this etching offered viewers a glimpse of daily life made beautiful through Whistler’s stylistic choices, which he derived from seventeenth-century Dutch masters whose works he admired as he traveled throughout northern Europe. The outsider’s glimpse of humble figures framed in a doorway, regularly seen in Dutch paintings, quickly became a standard trope for Whistler.
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 G20 state 2 of 5.
label: Provenance
content: Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London [1]
label: Provenance
content: To 1891
label: Provenance
content: H. Wunderlich & Co., New York to 1891 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1891 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from H. Wunderlich & Co. in 1891 [3]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] See Curatorial Remark 2 in the object record.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See Original Whistler List, Etchings, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
label: Provenance
content: [3] See note 2.
label: Provenance
content: [4] 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: Exhibition History
content: Off the Beaten Path: Early Works by James McNeill Whistler (September 28, 2013 to September 28, 2014)
label: Exhibition History
content: Young Whistler: Early Prints and the "French Set" (August 28, 2004 to March 13, 2005)
label: Exhibition History
content: Special Exhibition, Whistler Etchings and Lithographs (January 14, 1924 to February 18, 1924)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: H. Wunderlich & Co. (1874-1912) (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: store front
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: F1891.6
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 (overall): 15.7 x 9 cm (6 3/16 x 3 9/16 in)