Catalogues Raisonnés

• Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 264), plate 162, as 'An Orange Note: Sweet Shop'.

Authored by Whistler

• None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

EXHIBITION:

• 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884 (cat. no. 38) as 'An orange note Sweet Shop'.
• Probably Exposition Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1887 (cat. no. 206) as 'Note en orange: Boutique de bonbons'.
• Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 84) as 'Note orange; la boutique aux bonbons (An Orange Note. The Sweet Shop').

SALE:

• Christie's, London, 17 December 1904 (lot 39) 'An Orange Note: Sweetshop'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

• Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Exhibition', London Evening Standard, London, 19 May 1884, p. 2.
• Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Exhibition', The Globe, London, 20 May 1884, p. 6.
• Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Exhibition', The Graphic, London, 24 May 1884, p. 3.
• 'Messrs. Dowdeswell's Gallery', Morning Post, London, 24 May 1884, p. 5.
• Anon. ['Cigarette'], 'Whistles', The Topical Times, London, 24 May 1884.
• Anon., 'Art Notes', Liverpool Mercury, Liverpool, 3 July 1884, p. 6.

Journals 1855-1905

• ‘An Enthusiast’, [Sickert, W. R.], 'Mr Whistler and His Art', The Artist and Journal of Home Culture, vol. 5, 1 June 1884, pp. 199-201.
• Wedmore, Frederick, 'Mr Whistler's Arrangement in Flesh Colour and Gray', The Academy, 24 May 1884.
• Dowdeswell, Walter, 'Whistler', The Art Journal, new series, vol. 50, no. 586, April 1887, pp. 97-103, wood engraving repr. p. 97.
• Sickert, Walter Richard, 'Whistler To-day', The Fortnightly Review, vol. 57, new series, vol. 51, April 1892, pp. 543-47, at p. 545.
• 'Whistler Portfolio', The Studio, London, 1905, repr. pl. 1.

Monographs

• None.

Books on Whistler

• Cary, Elizabeth Luther, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study, with a Tentative List of Artist’s Works, New York, 1907 (cat. no. 226), p. 193.
• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler: Uneasy Pieces, New York, 2004, p. 391 n. 3.
• Duret, Théodore, Histoire de J. McN. Whistler et de son oeuvre, Paris, 1904, repr. p. 177.
• Glazer, Lee, Emily Jacobsen, Blyth McCarthy, and Katherine Roeder, Whistler in Watercolor. Lovely Little Games, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2019, p. 219, repr. p. 218.
• Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984, p. 229.
• Menpes, Mortimer, Whistler as I Knew Him, London, 1904, repr. f.p. 128.
• Petri, Grischka, Arrangement in Business: The Art Markets and the Career of James McNeill Whistler, Hildesheim, 2011, pp. 377, 417, 675.
• Robins, Anna Gruetzner, A Fragile Modernism. Whistler and his Impressionist Followers, London and New Haven, 2007, pp. 2, 10, 23-25, 31, 36, repr. fig. 17.
• Sickert, Bernhard, Whistler, London and New York, 1908 (cat. no. 158).
• Spencer, Robin, Whistler, New York, 1990, pp. 110-11.
• Walker, John, James McNeill Whistler, New York, 1987, p. 102.

Books, General

• Robins, Anna Gruetzner (ed.), Walter Sickert: the Complete Writings on Art, Oxford, 2000, p. 5.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION:

• Stubbs, Burns A., Paintings, Pastels, Drawings, Prints and Copper Plates by and attributed to American and European Artists, together with a List of Original Whistleriana in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1948, p. 14 (04.315).
• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 131, plate 35.

EXHIBITION:

• Selection of Art Objects from The Freer Collection, National Museum, Washington, DC, 1912 (cat. no. 6).
• Myers, Kenneth John, Mr. Whistler’s Gallery: Pictures at an 1884 Exhibition, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003, p. 91 (cat. no. 33) repr. p. 59.
• Merrill, Linda, et al., After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Painting, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 2003, p. 196, repr. fig. 105 (not in exhibition).

SALE:

• Christie's, London, 17 December 1904 (lot 39).

Journals 1906-Present

• Myers, Kenneth, 'Whistler and the Quintessencier: "Violet and Blue: Among the Rollers" and the Importance of the Late Small Oils', Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, vol. 85, no. 1-4, 2011, p. 28-41, at p. 37.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1904.315a-c.

Unpublished

• Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 345).

Other

• None.