La Mère Gérard — James McNeill Whistler | DiscoverArt

James McNeill Whistler

La Mère Gérard

1858

Etching, printed in black ink on brownish-gray chine on off-white wove paper (chine collé); fourth state of four (Glasgow)

12.7 × 9 cm (5 × 3.5 in)

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