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

 

M.1036
Return of the fishing boats

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1885
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: 1991.7.2
Medium: watercolour
Support: white paper laid down on card
Size: 8 1/2 x 5" (216 x 126 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: on card backing 'No 10' and on label on verso of frame 'Violet ... Return of the Fishing Bo[ats]...' (incomplete) in unknown hands

Return of the fishing boats

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1036) as 'Return of the fishing boats'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

SALE:

  • Probably Christie's, London, 12 March 1904 (lot 105) as 'Waiting for the fishing boats.'

Catalogues 1906-Present

EXHIBITION:

  • Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1991, pp. 240-41, repr.

SALE:

  • Christie's, London, 19 December 1972 (lot 58).

Websites

  • National Gallery of Art website at https://www.nga.gov/collection.

Last updated: 9th June 2021 by Margaret