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

 

The Little White Sofa

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. 258), plate 176, as 'The Little White Sofa'.

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Possibly A Collection of Selected Works by Painters of the English, French & Dutch Schools, Goupil Gallery, London, 1898 (cat. no. 23) as 'Resting'.
  • A Loan Collection of Modern Paintings, Leinster Hall, Dublin, 1899 (cat. no. 81) as 'A Girl'.
  • Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 98) as 'The Little White Sofa'.
  • Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 53) as 'Le petit sopha blanc. – The Little White Sofa'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • Possibly Dublin Daily Express, Dublin, 22 April 1899, p. 3.

Journals 1855-1905

  • None.

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, p. 191 (cat. no. 212).
  • Sickert, Bernhard, Whistler, London and New York, 1908, p. 170 (cat. no. 146).

Books, General

  • None.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION:

  • Stebbins, Theodore E., Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard University Art Museums/Yale University Press, Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008 (cat. no. 450), p. 424, repr.

EXHIBITION:

  • Loan Collection of Works by James McNeill Whistler, National Gallery, London, 1912 (cat. no. 7) as 'Resting'.
  • Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Prints by James McNeill Whistler, courtesy of the Henderson Family of New Orleans, Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, 1937.
  • Master Paintings from the Fogg Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 1977.
  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, repr. fig. 50.1, p. 145.
  • For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 2004.

Journals 1906-Present

  • None.

Websites

  • Fogg Art Museum website at https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/art/230331.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 270).

Other

  • None.

Last updated: 18th December 2020 by Margaret