Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 814) as 'Sunset; blue and gold'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Probably Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 37) as 'Sunset; blue and gold'.
• Possibly Watercolours, Pastels, Drawings in Black and White, Sculptures and Bronzes By British and Foreign Artists Including A Selection of Works by H. B. Brabazon, and A Group of Works by the late James McNeill Whistler, W. Marchant & Co., Goupil Gallery, London, 1903 (cat. no. 40) as 'Sunset, Venice'.

Journals 1855-1905

• 'Venice in Pastel', St James's Gazette, 9 February 1881, p. 13.
• Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Venice; or, Pastels by Pastelthwaite', Punch, vol. 80, 12 February 1881, p. 69.

Books on Whistler

• Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, repr. f.p. 52.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Sixty Years of American Art, 1870-1930, Spanierman Gallery, New York, 1995 (checklist, no. cat. number) as 'Sunset in Blue and Gold'.