James Abbott McNeill Whistler. 1834-1903.
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La Vieille aux Loques. (A Woman Sorting Rags). 1858. Etching and drypoint. Kennedy 21.ii; Glasgow 27.iii/iv (before the removal of Delâtre's namd and address). 6 x 8 7/8 (sheet 8 11/16 x 10 11/16). Series: "Douze eaux-fortes d'aprèè nature" (Twelve Etchings from Nature), the artist's first published set. Glasgow records 44 known impressions. A rich impression with burr, printed on watermarked laid paper with full margins. Signed and dated in the plate. $2,250.
After visiting the Rhineland during a summer-fall tour in 1858, Whistler created this image of an elderly but dignified elderly woman sorting rags (loques). He here develops a formula to which he would often return-using an open entrance to frame a receding interior that contains figures and objects.
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