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

 

YMSM 119
Nocturne: Blue and Silver – Battersea Reach

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1872/1875
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1902.97a-b
Medium: oil
Support: canvas
Size: 49.9 x 72.3 cm (19 5/8 x 30 1/8")
Signature: none
Inscription: none
Frame: Flat Whistler, Foord & Dickinson label, ca 1878, modified 1892 [16.5 cm]

Nocturne: Blue and Silver – Battersea Reach

Nocturne: Blue and Silver – Battersea Reach dates from the mid-1870s, and may have been completed for exhibition in 1872 or 1875. 1

Nocturne: Blue and Silver – Battersea Reach, Freer Gallery of Art
Nocturne: Blue and Silver – Battersea Reach, Freer Gallery of Art

It may have been touched up and partly repainted in 1887 and 1892.

Notes:

1: 6th Winter Exhibition of Cabinet Pictures in Oil, Dudley Gallery, London, 1872 (cat. no. 237). Dated 'about 1870/5' in YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 119).

Last updated: 7th June 2021 by Margaret