The Old Rag Woman, No. 10 from Twelves Etchings from Nature (The French Set), 1858
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The Old Rag Woman, No. 10 from Twelves Etchings from Nature (The French Set), 1858
The Old Rag Woman, No. 10 from Twelves Etchings from Nature (The French Set), 1858. Whistlers 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-patriots awareness of modern realist trends in French art. This print, made after Whistlers 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
Media ID 19648595
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1834 1903 James Mcneill Whistler James Mcneill Whistler American Tonalism
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