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

 

From the Café Orientale

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 751) as 'From the Café Orientale'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 31) as 'From the Café Orientale'.

Journals 1855-1905

  • Anon. [Godwin, E. W.], 'Review of Venice Pastels Exhibition', British Architect, 4 February 1881, pp. 59-64.
  • 'Mr Whistler's Venice Pastels', Pan, 5 February 1881.

Books on Whistler

  • Getscher, Robert Harold, James Abbott McNeill Whistler Pastels, New York, 1991, pp. 31, 104-05 (33).
  • Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, p. 161, repr. pl. 204, site repr. pl. 205.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001, repr. p. 34.
  • McCann, Justin (ed.), Whistler and the World: The Lunder Collection of James McNeill Whistler at the Colby College of Art, New York, 2015,
  • Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, repr. f.p. 52.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • New Year Exhibition, Ernest Brown & Phillips, Leicester Galleries, London, 1955 (cat. no. 2).
  • Young, A. McLaren, James McNeill Whistler, Arts Council Gallery, London, and Knoedler Galleries, New York, 1960 (cat. no. 83) as 'The Riva in Venice'.
  • Spencer, Robin, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1969 (cat. no. 80).
  • Reff, Theodore, and Allen Staley (eds), From Realism to Symbolism: Whistler and His World, Columbia University, New York, 1971 (cat. no. 31) as 'The Riva in Venice'.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Notes, Harmonies, and Nocturnes: Small Works by James McNeill Whistler, M. Knoedler and Co., Inc., New York, 1984 (cat. no. 82) as 'From the Café Orientale' (reproduced beside cat. no. 81, The Zattere; harmony in blue and brown [M.0774]).
  • American Works on Paper, Spanierman Gallery, New York, 1987 (cat. no. 51) as 'Zattere: Harmony in Blue and Brown' [sic].
  • McCann, Justin (ed.), Whistler and the World: The Lunder Collection of James McNeill Whistler at the Colby College of Art, New York, 2015.

Websites

  • Colby College Museum of Art website at https://www.colby.edu.

Last updated: 4th June 2021 by Margaret