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

 

M.0307
Sketch of 'Blue and Silver: Blue Wave, Biarritz'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1862
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: E. R. & J. Pennell Collection
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: cream laid paper
Size: 8 7/16" x 10 5/8" (215 x 270 mm)
Signature: letter signed 'Jim Whistler'
Inscription: 'Matelot / espagnol / en rouge chaloupe / en danger / dans les brisants rochers pecheur / femmes / Ciel - soir mer foncée / presque noir des brisants qui / se suivent de-puis le fond / jusqu'au premier plan', in letter

Sketch of 'Blue and Silver: Blue Wave, Biarritz'

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 307) as "Sketch of 'Blue and Silver: Blue Wave, Biarritz'".
  • Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 41) oil, 'Blue and Silver: Blue Wave, Biarritz'.

Journals 1855-1905

  • Bénédite, Léonce, 'Artistes Contemporains: Whistler', Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 33, 1905, pp. 403-10, 496-511; vol. 34, 1905, pp. 142-58, 231-46, at vol. 33, p. 500.

Books on Whistler

  • Duret, Théodore, Histoire de J. McN. Whistler et de son oeuvre, Paris, 1904, pp. 18-19, repr. p. 24.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., 'Joanna Hiffernan and James Whistler: an Artistic Partnership' in Margaret F. MacDonald (ed.), The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and Washington, 2020, pp. 15-31.

Websites

  • The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, 1855-1903, edited by Margaret F. MacDonald, Patricia de Montfort and Nigel Thorp; including The Correspondence of Anna McNeill Whistler, 1855-1880, edited by Georgia Toutziari. Online edition, University of Glasgow.

Last updated: 9th March 2021 by Margaret