Rag Pickers, Quartier Mouffetard, Paris

Although not included in the 'French Set,' this etching must have been made at the same time as the Old Rag Gatherer, another of Whistler's French "doorway" views into interiors. Originally the scene lacked figures and Whistler titled the plate Quartier Mouffetard, the name of the district in Paris known as the 'Latin Quarter.' The figures were only added after 1861, when the plate was reprinted with a group of Whistler's early Thames views.