The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0273
La Marchande de Moutarde
Date
La Marchande de Moutarde dates from between August and October 1858.
La Marchande de Moutarde, Freer Gallery of Art
This is one of two studies for the etching La Marchande de Moutarde [20], which was printed by Auguste Delâtre (1822-1907) and published in the 'French Set', Douze Eaux-Fortes d'après Nature (Twelve Etchings from Nature) in 1858.
The drawing is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 273).
Images
La Marchande de Moutarde, Freer Gallery of Art
La Marchande de Moutarde, National Gallery of Art, DC
Subject
Site
The city of Cologne in Germany.
Technique
Composition
La Marchande de Moutarde, Freer Gallery of Art
La Marchande de Moutarde, National Gallery of Art, DC
This is one of two studies used as the basis for the etching La Marchande de Moutarde [20].
Conservation History
The sheet was probably taken from a sketchbook. Over fifty drawings, many in sketchbooks, most of which dated from 1857-1858, were apparently given to Whistler's half-sister Deborah and/or her husband, Francis Seymour Haden, and were later removed from the sketchbooks.
History
Provenance
- 1858: probably given to Deborah Delano Haden (1825-1908) or her husband Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910);
- 1898: sold through Wunderlich, New York dealers, to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919);
- 1919: bequeathed by C. L. Freer to the Freer Gallery of Art.
See further details in r.: Les Côtes à Dieppe; v.: Cliffs and building m0222.
Exhibitions
It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.
Due to the conditions of Freer's will, it cannot be lent to another venue.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 273) as 'La Marchande de Moutarde'.
Catalogues 1906-Present
- Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 230, pl. 189.
Websites
- Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1898.148, as 'La Marchande de Moutarde'.
- Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2012, website (cat. no. 20).