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Maker(s):Whistler, James Abbott McNeill
Culture:American (1834-1903)
Title:Old Woman in Rags (La Vielle aux Loques)
Date Made:1858
Type:Print
Materials:etching on off-white wove paper
Measurements:Sheet: 10 5/8 in x 8 3/8 in; 27.0 cm x 21.3 cm; Plate: 8 1/4 in x 5 7/8 in; 21.0 cm x 14.9 cm
Accession Number:  AC 1951.2165
Credit Line:Gift of Edward C. Crossett
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Description:
from "Twelve Etchings from Nature" series

Label Text:
Whistler published Douze eaux-fortes d’après nature (Twelve Etchings from Nature), known as the French Set, at the time that the French Barbizon artists were exploring etching, and scholars in the emerging field of art history were reappraising seventeenth-century Dutch art. Both groups paid particular attention to Rembrandt, the adopted patriarch of a growing number of nineteenth-century painter-etchers. Whistler’s subject—an elderly laborer seen in profile—recalls seventeenth-century examples, yet his method was innovative. The physicality of the etching process is evident in the finished image: dark areas full of deeply-bitten scratches are framed by an open, richly-textured area corroded by acid.

KG, How He Was to His Talents exhibition, March 24, 2011-August 7, 2011

Subjects:
Etching

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