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

 

M.0965
Little Scheveningen

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1884/1888
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: watercolour
Support: probably white laid paper
Size: unknown, photograph 110 x 194 mm (4 5/16 x 7 5/8")
Signature: none
Inscription: unknown

Little Scheveningen

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Little Scheveningen, photograph, Library of Congress
Little Scheveningen, photograph, Library of Congress

Scheveningen, a fishing town and resort on the Dutch coast. The painting was described in the 1905 catalogue: 'A grey beach, with long stretch of sand, sea coming in, in the distance, three boats lie in the surf.' 1 Whistler may have visited it on the recommendation of Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831-1915). 2

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1: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 42) as 'Little Scheveningen (a grey note)'.

2: Heijbroek 1997 [more] , p. 115.

Last updated: 5th June 2021 by Margaret