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

 

M.1033
Note in opal - The Sands, Dieppe

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1885
Collection: Colby College Museum of Art
Accession Number: 2013.298
Medium: watercolour and body colour or gouache
Support: white paper laid down on board
Size: 8 1/8 x 5 5/8" (206 x 143 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: v.: 'No 34' or 'No 54' in unknown hand

Note in opal - The Sands, Dieppe

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1033).

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Probably 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 54) as 'Note in opal – The Sands, Dieppe'.
  • Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 88) as 'Marine'.

Websites

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

Last updated: 24th February 2021 by Margaret