The Laundress: La Blanchisseuse de la place Dauphine
Medium
transfer lithograph
Dimensions
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Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph King
Accession Number
1924.17
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About this artwork
This print is one of several in which James McNeill Whistler depicted a laundry shop on Paris’s historic place Dauphine, near Notre Dame cathedral. As an American expatriate, Whistler was fascinated by the city’s storefronts and recorded them often. Here, he presents a scene that captivated many urban dwellers at the time: laundresses are seen through a doorway, their sleeves pushed up for work. The subject reflects a practice that Edgar Degas himself favored and which had become recognizable in...