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La Mère Gérard, Stooping |  New York Public Library (MEZAP) | |
| Number: | 25 | |
| Date: | 1858 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 105 x 64 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 1 | |
| Catalogues: | K.12; M.14; T.32; W.10 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (1) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
and ). 10 They would have been lent by Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904), who was largely responsible for the comments in the catalogue, distinguishing the state and rarity of individual impressions and arranging them in roughly chronological order. He lent the impression of La Mère Gérard, Stooping again in 1900, to the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago. 11
10: New York 1881 (cat. no. 14); see REFERENCES : EXHIBITIONS.
11: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 10).
Finally, the two etched portraits were again shown together after Whistler's death, at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904 and the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905. 13
12: New York 1898 (cat. no. 9); New York 1903b (cat. no. 75).
13: New York 1904a (cat. no. 11); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 10).
SALES & COLLECTORS
). It is now in the New York Public Library with the rest of Avery's collection. The other impression, owned by Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924), has not been located and does not seem to have been sold by H. Wunderlich & Co., New York with the MacGeorge collection in 1901 (). 15
14: Wedmore 1886 A (cat. no. 10).
15: New York 1901 .