Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

 

M.0851
Arrangement in Black - No. 3

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1881/1882
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: 1943.3.8817
Medium: pencil, pen and brown ink
Support: off-white laid paper
Size: 6 15/16 x 4 3/8" (177 x 112 mm)
Signature: two butterflies
Inscription: r.: 'Arrangement in Black- No. 3.' by Whistler, and numbered in unknown hand '3588'. v.: collector's mark 'LJR' (L. J. Rosenwald)

Arrangement in Black - No. 3

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 851) as 'Arrangement in Black - No. 3'.
  • Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 228).

Websites

  • National Gallery of Art website at https://www.nga.gov.

Last updated: 13th February 2021 by Margaret