Rag Pickers, Quartier Mouffetard, Paris
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Rag Pickers, Quartier Mouffetard, Paris, 1858, etching and drypoint on cream laid paper, Gift of Bob Rau, public domain, 92.195.2
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- Title
Rag Pickers, Quartier Mouffetard, Paris
- Artist
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American, active England and France, 1834-1903)
- Date
1858
- Medium
etching and drypoint on cream laid paper
- Catalogue Raisonné
Glasgow 29
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
plate: 6 in x 3 9/16 in; sheet: 9 5/16 in x 6 1/16 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
signature; date: Whistler // 1858 [written vertically], printed, center right in plate
- Collection Area
Graphic Arts
- Category
Prints
- Object Type
intaglio print
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Gift of Bob Rau
- Accession Number
92.195.2
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
One of the oldest neighborhoods in Paris, the Mouffetard quartier is a warren of small streets and narrow passageways. At the time Whistler made this etching, it was a squalid area, populated by poor workers, beggars, and rag pickers, who eked out a living by collecting scraps.
Whistler maintained an interest in these poor and marginal lives, as seen in this sheet, Longshoremen, and Soupe à trois sous [see Related Artworks].
- Exhibitions
2017 The Etchings of Whistler and His Circle Portland Art Museum