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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M9532
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
Mother Gérard
Other Titles
Original Language Title: La mère Gérard
Series/Book Title: Twelve Etchings from Nature (French Set)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1858
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/262582

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed in black ink on tan modern laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 22.2 × 14 cm (8 3/4 × 5 1/2 in.)
plate: 12.2 × 8.7 cm (4 13/16 × 3 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in plate, lower left: Whistler
  • inscription: lower right corner of sheet, graphite: La mère Gérard
  • inscription: lower left corner of sheet, graphite: avbi[?]
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite, handwritten: inventory number (?): no 2
  • inscription: lower left, diagonally on floor, etched: Whistler
  • inscription: at lower edge of plate, centered, etched: Imp Delatre Rue St Jacques 171.
  • inscription: verso, graphite: no 2
  • collector's mark: verso, brown stamp with accession number written in graphite:
    THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 9532 [Lugt 936]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mrs. William Simes, Collector, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1938.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow iv/iv
Edition
Imp. Delâtre
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 11, Glasgow 24

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. William Simes
Accession Year
1938
Object Number
M9532
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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