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

 

M.1029
Little red note - Place des Enfers, Dieppe

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1885/1886
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: watercolour
Support: unknown
Size: unknown
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown

Little red note - Place des Enfers, Dieppe

Provenance

Unknown.

Exhibitions

  • 1886: 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 16) as 'Little red note – Place des Enfers, Dieppe'.

Kay described it as 'a little brick-red "note" of a street in perspective that turns out to be the Place des Enfers in Dieppe'. 1

Notes:

1: de Kay, Charles, 'Whistler. The head of the Impressionists', Art Review, vol. 1, no. 1, 1886 , pp. 1-3, at p. 1.

Last updated: 21st February 2021 by Margaret