Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1232) as 'Vénus Astarté'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• 31st Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Glasgow, 1892 (cat. no. 693) as 'The Birth of Venus'.
• Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 132) as 'Vénus Astarté'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

• Anon., Glasgow Evening Times, Glasgow, 29 January 1892.
• Anon., 'Glasgow Fine Art Exhibition, Dundee Advertiser, Dundee, 30 January 1892, p. 4.

Journals 1855-1905

• Sickert, Oswald, ‘The Oil Paintings of James McNeill Whistler’, The Studio, vol. 30, October 1903, pp. 3-10.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 278, pl. 281.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1904.65a-c.