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The image shows an artwork of a man seated, holding a musical instrument. He has facial features including a mustache and thick, curly hair. He is wearing a coat over a shirt with a scarf and is positioned against a lightly sketched background.
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The image shows an artwork of a man seated, holding a musical instrument. He has facial features including a mustache and thick, curly hair. He is wearing a coat over a shirt with a scarf and is positioned against a lightly sketched background.

National Gallery of Art · Print

Becquet

James McNeill Whistler

Date
1871
Medium
etching and drypoint in black on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 25.56 × 19.21 cm (10 1/16 × 7 9/16 in.) sheet: 37.15 × 26.04 cm (14 5/8 × 10 1/4 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
2015.19.404
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Julius Garfinckel, 1938)
Time span
1851 to 1875
Department
CG-W
Original NGA record Wikidata

Portfolio and series

Series
Sixteen Etchings

Subjects and terms

  • American
  • etching
  • male
  • portrait
  • drypoint
  • Portrait
  • Fiddle
Provenance

Julius Garfinckel, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1938; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

NGA object ID 183415. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.