Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 743) as 'Sunset, in red and brown'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Probably Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 25) as 'Sunset, in red and brown'.

Journals 1855-1905

• Anon., [Godwin, E. W.], 'Review of Venice Pastels Exhibition', British Architect, 4 February 1881, pp. 59-64.

Books on Whistler

• Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 110-11, repr. pl. 129, view as seen in an 1890s photograph repr. pl. 130.
• Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, repr. f.p. 52.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 266, pl. 259.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1917.8a-b.