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

 

M.1081
The Violet Note

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1885/1886
Collection: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
Accession Number: P25e5
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 10 1/4 x 6 3/4" (260 x 180 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

The Violet Note

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1081) as 'A Violet Note'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Art Exhibition, Mrs John L. Gardner, 152 Beacon Street, Boston, 1899, p. 8 (cat. no. 22).

Books, General

  • Carter, Morris, Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court, Boston and New York, 1925, p. 103.
  • Chong, Alan, et al. (eds), Eye of the Beholder: Masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 2003, p. 201, repr.

Websites

  • Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum website at https://www.gardnermuseum.org.

Last updated: 27th February 2021 by Margaret