James McNeill Whistler, The Old Rag Woman, No. 10
Ralph King, 1922.438 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
James McNeill Whistler

The Old Rag Woman, No. 10

1858

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
etching with chine collé
Dimensions
27.3 × 20.8 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-203092

Whistler's first set of prints, the so-called French Set, included domestic and genre scenes, studies of friends and their children, and glimpses of shadowy figures in backstreets, alleyways, and anonymous interiors. His choice of subject and treatment reflected the American ex-patriot's awareness of modern realist trends in French art. This print, made after Whistler's return to Paris from the Rhine, describes an old woman silhouetted in a doorway, thrown into relief by a shadowed interior. Bent with fatigue, she sits among bundles of scavenged rags, gathered by the poor and sold to papermak…

Provenance

Ralph King, 1922.438

Registry history

  • 1858 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints

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