Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 786) as 'The Steps'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 23) as 'The Steps'.

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" ', Queen, 12 February 1881.
• Anon., 'An Impressionist', Our Continent, 12 July 1882, pp. 12-14, at p. 13, repr. p. 3.
• Anon., Artist, vol. 21, 1898, pp. 42-44, woodcut by J. H. E. Whitney repr.

Books on Whistler

• Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 131, 134, repr. pl. 165.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001, pp. 59-60, repr. pl. 68, photograph from the Archivio Filippi repr. pl. 69.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 261, pl. 250.
• Merrill, Linda, et al., After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Painting, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 2003, p. 34, repr. fig. 23 (not exhibited).

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1917.4a-b.