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

 

M.1393
The Little Blue Cap

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1894/1895
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 2012.96
Medium: charcoal, watercolour and gouache
Support: brown wove paper laid down on board
Size: 10 15/16 x 7 3/16" (278 x 182 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: v.: 'No.1./ 60 [crossed out] 61/ "The Little Blue Cap"/ 22 x 16/ Exhibited Paris 1905/ Rotterdam' in unknown hands

The Little Blue Cap

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1393) as 'The Little Blue Cap'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 93) as 'The little Blue Cap'.
  • Aquarellen, Pastels, Teekingen, Etsen, Lithographien en een Schilderij door James McNeill Whistler, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1906 (cat. no. 5).

Websites

  • Art Institute of Chicago website.
  • Clarke, Jay A., and Sarah Kelly Oehler, eds., Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, website (cat. no. 32).

Last updated: 11th December 2020 by Margaret