Object details
Accession number
2.2.o.62
Primary Creator
James McNeill Whistler
(Lowell, Massachusetts, 1834 - 1903, London, England)
Full title
La Vieille aux Loques
Creation Date
1858
State
III/IV
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date.
Marks
Signed in etching (lower right): "Whistler" [reversed "s"]
Dimensions
21 x 14.6 cm (8 1/4 x 5 3/4 in.)
Display Media
Etching printed on paper
Web Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Permanent Gallery Location
Short Gallery
Bibliography
Ralph Thomas. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Drypoints of James Abbott MacNeil Whistler (London, 1874), no. 9.
Frederick Wedmore. Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue (London, 1886), p. 21, no. 14.
Théodore Duret. Histoire de J. McN. Whistler et de son oeuvre (Paris, 1904), p. 11.
Howard Mansfield. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Chicago, 1909), p. 14, no. 21.
Edward G. Kennedy. The Etched Work of Whistler (New York, 1910), p. 9, no. 21.
Denys Sutton. "'Un Monsieur Rare, Prince en Quelque Chose...'" and "La Vielle aux Loques" in P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. An Exhibition of Etchings, Dry Points & Lithographs by James McNeill Whistler (London, 16 November - 10 December 1971). p. vi, 5, no. 15.
Columbia University and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. From Realism to Symbolism: Whistler and His World. Exh. cat. (New York, 1971), pp. 35-36, no. 3.
Katharine A. Lochnan. The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler. Exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984; Toronto: The Art Gallery of Ontario, 1985), pp. 28, 50-52, 55, 57, 191, 278, no. 23.
Pierre Cabanne. Whistler (New York, 1985), p. 16, ill.
Catherine E. Hutchina (ed.). Fleeting Impressions: Prints by James McNeill Whistler. Exh. cat. (Montgomery: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 2006), pp. 14-15, 105.
Margaret F. MacDonald et al. "La Vieille aux Loques" James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné (University of Glasgow, 2012), no. 27, accessed 9 June 2016. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/
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