Print of girl and woman standing in kitchen
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A young girl stands with her back against the left side of a tall doorway. Her hair is pulled back with a headband, and she wears a dress with flared sleeves. The doorway opens into a small, dark kitchen with a sloped ceiling, where a stoop-shouldered woman in a white bonnet bends over a low counter on the left side. A large container sits on the counter. A shelf to the woman’s right holds another large container. Above the counter is a row of cabinets with a shelf on top. A cauldron, a towel, and several jars rest atop the shelf.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2005.277
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Auguste Delâtre, French (1822 - 1907)
Title
La Marchande de Moutarde
Other Titles
Alternate Title: The Mustard Seller
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1858
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/12460

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed in black ink with plate tone on white wove paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 15.7 x 8.8 cm (6 3/16 x 3 7/16 in.)
sheet: 18.4 x 11 cm (7 1/4 x 4 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: etched in lower left corner: Imp. Delatre. Rue St. Jacques. 171.
  • inscription: etched in lower left below door jamb: Whistler
  • inscription: sheet, lower left corner, graphite: 68796
  • inscription: sheet, lower right, graphite: 51
  • inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: a65643 / GL[?] rv / f / 59 / 11480
  • collector's mark: verso, blue stamp with accession number written below in graphite:
    THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 2005.277 [Lugt 936]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow ii/v
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 22, Glasgow

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Patricia Cornwell
Accession Year
2005
Object Number
2005.277
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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