Sujet
The Old Rag Woman, No. 10 from Twelves Etchings from Nature (The French Set), 1858. Creator: James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903).
Légende
The Old Rag Woman, No. 10 from Twelves Etchings from Nature (The French Set), 1858. 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 papermakers. The image resonates with the painful combination of aging and urban poverty.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19G13_496
Model release
NA
Property release
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Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
50,8Mo (5,0Mo) / 30,4cm x 41,9cm / 3588 x 4949 (300dpi)