The Laundress: La Blanchisseuse de la place Dauphine
1894
- Medium
- transfer lithograph
- Dimensions
- 27.5 × 20.1 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-204526
This print is one of several in which James McNeill Whistler depicted a laundry shop on Paris’s historic place Dauphine, near Notre Dame cathedral. As an American expatriate, Whistler was fascinated by the city’s storefronts and recorded them often. Here, he presents a scene that captivated many urban dwellers at the time: laundresses are seen through a doorway, their sleeves pushed up for work. The subject reflects a practice that Edgar Degas himself favored and which had become recognizable in his work, described by an early biographer as “strolling in the shadow of Paris’s streets, stop[pi…
Provenance
Ralph King, 1924.17
Registry history
- 1894 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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