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

 

Variations in violet and grey – Market Place, Dieppe

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1024) as 'Variations in violet and grey – Market Place, Dieppe'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 11) as 'Variations in violet and grey – Market Place, Dieppe'.
  • Possibly Exposition Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1887 (cat. no. 179) as 'Argent et violet: Dieppe' although this might have been an oil.
  • Probably III. Internationale Kunst-Ausstellung, Königlicher Glaspalast, Munich, 1888 (cat. no. 26) as 'Rosa und Silber: Markt in Dieppe'.
  • “Notes” – “Harmonies” – “Nocturnes”, H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 1889 (cat. no. 19) as 'Blue and Violet – The Market – Dieppe'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • Fun, New York, 1 March 1889.
  • The Epoch, New York, 8 March 1889.
  • Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Pictures at the Wunderlich Gallery', The Sun, New York, 10 March 1889, p. 14.
  • Home Journal, New York, 15 March 1889.
  • Anon., Evening Sun, New York, 16 March 1889

Books, General

  • Avery, Kevin J., et al., American Drawings and Watercolors in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born before 1835, New York, 2002, pp. 278-88 (cat. no. 106), repr. p. 287.

Websites

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Last updated: 2nd April 2021 by Margaret