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

 

YMSM 328
Green and Violet: The Evening Walk, Dieppe

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1896
Collection: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville
Accession Number: Promised Gift
Medium: oil
Support: wood
Size: 12.7 x 21.5 cm (5 x 8 1/2")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Green and Violet: The Evening Walk, Dieppe

Green and Violet: The Evening Walk, Dieppe, has been redated to 1896: it was formerly thought to date from the autumn of 1885. 1

Green and Violet: The Evening Walk, Dieppe, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Green and Violet: The Evening Walk, Dieppe, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

This dating is based on the technique and butterfly signature, and on Whistler's known trip to Dieppe in that year.

In December 1896 The Academy and Literature described it with several other paintings, including Brown and Gold: The Curé's Little Class [YMSM 455], as 'charming.' 2

It was probably the painting exhibited with the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts as 'Vert et violet' in 1897, and was certainly published by David Croal Thomson (1855-1930) among 'New Pictures by Mr. Whistler' in the same year. 3

Notes:

1: 'Dated 'autumn of 1885' in YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 328).

2: The Academy and Literature, 26 December 1896, vol. 50, no. 1256, p. 600.

3: Exposition Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 7th exhibition, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Champs de Mars, Paris, 1897 (cat. no. 1257). Thomson 1897 [more] .

Last updated: 13th November 2020 by Margaret