Whistler's Mother, after Whistler
c. 1883
Medium
Etching in brown on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 14.2 × 16.7 cm (5 5/8 × 6 5/8 in.); Sheet: 24.9 × 32.5 cm (9 13/16 × 12 13/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
140684
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
This print by the accomplished etcher Henri Charles Guérard reproduces Whistler’s painting on the occasion of its exhibition at the Paris Salon of 1883, where it was shown under the more simple title “Portrait de ma mère” (Portrait of my mother). The print was commissioned for publication in the Gazette des beaux-arts, the most widely read French journal on the arts. Though it doubtlessly helped circulate the painting’s image to a French audience, Whistler later dismissed the print, preferring t...