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

 

Venus and Cupid

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1296) as 'Venus and Cupid'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Probably English and German Watercolours, Schtiglitz School, Saint Petersburg, 1897 (cat. no. 126) as 'Woman with a child'.
  • 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. 41) as 'Draped Figure and Cupid'.
  • Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 92).

Books, General

  • Diaghilev, S. P., 'Vistavka angliiskikh I nemetskikh akvarelistov' [Exhibition of English and German Watercolourists], in Sergei Diagilev, I russkoye iskusstvo ... [Sergei Diagilev and Russian Art ...], 2 vols., Moscow, 1982, vol. 1, p. 63.

Catalogues 1906-Present

EXHIBITION:

  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 206, pl. 138.
  • Vyazova, Ekaterina, ' "Whistlerism" in Russia at the Turn of the 19th Century', in Andreeva, Galina, and Margaret F. MacDonald, Whistler and Russia, State Tretyakow Gallery, Moscow, 2006, pp. 86-117, at pp. 88-89.

SALE:

  • Christie's, London, 9 May 1913 (lot 184).

Websites

  • Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1913.48a-c, as 'Woman with a Child (Nude Figure and Cupid)'.

Last updated: 28th May 2021 by Margaret