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

 

The Palace; white and pink

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 758) as 'The Palace; white and pink'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 15) as 'The palace; white and pink'.
  • Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 123) as 'The Palace – Pink and White'.

Journals 1855-1905

  • Anon. [Godwin, E. W.], 'Review of Venice Pastels Exhibition', British Architect, 4 February 1881, pp. 59-64.
  • St James Gazette, 9 February 1881.

Books on Whistler

  • Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 65-66, repr. pl. 58, view repr. pl. 61, photograph by Carlo Naya repr. pl. 59.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001, pp. 99, 101, repr. p. 106, pl. 112.
  • Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, drawing repr. f.p. 52.

Catalogues 1906-Present

EXHIBITION:

  • Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen et al., Splendid Legacy: The Havemeyer Collection, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993 (cat. no. 518).

SALE:

  • Doyle's, New York, 9 May 2012 (lot 341).

Websites

  • National Gallery of Art website at https://www.nga.gov.
  • Doyle, New York, 2012, website at http://doyle.com/auctions.

Last updated: 9th February 2021 by Margaret