Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1025) as 'Green and pearl – La plage, Dieppe'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 29) as 'Green and pearl – La Plage, Dieppe'.
• Possibly III. Internationale Kunst-Ausstellung, Königlicher Glaspalast, Munich, 1888 (cat. no. 28) as 'Grau und Gold: Trouville'.
• “Notes” – “Harmonies” – “Nocturnes”, H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 1889 (cat. no. 20) as 'Grey and Gold – The Beach – Trouville'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

• Fun, New York, 1 March 1889.
• Anon., 'Etchings, Drawings, Pastels', New York Times, New York, 3 March 1889, p. 5.
• The Epoch, New York, 8 March 1889.
• Anon., The Evening Sun, New York, 16 March 1889.

Books on Whistler

• Ono, Ayako, Japonisme in Britain: Whistler, Menpes, Henry, Hornel and nineteenth-century Japan, London, 2003, p. 80.

Books, General

• Herbert, John (ed.), Christie's Review of the Season, 1972, 1972, p. 140, repr.
• Wilmerding, John, In honor of Paul Mellon, collector and benefactor: essays, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and Hanover [N.H.], 1986, p. 122, fig. 9.

Catalogues 1906-Present

EXHIBITION:

• Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1991, 220-221, repr.
• Wilton, Andrew and Anne Lyles, The Great Age of British Watercolors 1750-1880, Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1993 (cat. no. 325).
• Dorment, Richard, and Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler, Tate Gallery, London, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1994-1995, (cat. no. 144) as 'Green and pearl – La plage, Dieppe'.

SALE:

• Christie's, London, 19 May 1972 (lot 37, repr.).

Websites

• National Gallery of Art website at https://www.nga.gov, as 'Beach Scene'.