Art, literature & history
La Mère Gérard
1858
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching, printed in black ink on antique cream laid paper; fourth state of four (Glasgow)
- Dimensions
- plate: 5 x 3 1/2 in. (12.7 x 8.9 cm) sheet: 9 3/4 x 7 5/8 in. (24.8 x 19.4 cm)
- Collection no.
- 83.1.35
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. La Mère Gérard. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
La Mère Gérard — James Abbott McNeill Whistler. 1858.
Medium: Etching, printed in black ink on antique cream laid paper; fourth state of four (Glasgow). Dimensions: plate: 5 x 3 1/2 in. (12.7 x 8.9 cm) sheet: 9 3/4 x 7 5/8 in. (24.8 x 19.4 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Gift of William Loring Andrews, 1883, transferred from the Library.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.