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

 

YMSM 160
Nocturne: Battersea Reach

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1872/1874
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: unknown
Medium: oil
Support: unknown
Size: unknown
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown
Frame: unknown

Nocturne: Battersea Reach

Titles

Several possible titles have been suggested:

  • 'Nocturne in Grey & Silver" - (Battersea)' (1874, Whistler). 1
  • ' "Nocturne". Battersea Reach' (1892, Goupil). 2
  • 'Nocturne: Battersea Reach' (YMSM, 1980). 3

The original 1892 title was altered in 1980 to 'Nocturne: Battersea Reach' to conform with other titles.

Description

It was probably a river scene in horizontal format.

Site

Battersea Reach on the Thames in London.

Nocturne: Battersea, Private collection
Nocturne: Battersea, Private collection
Nocturne: Blue and Silver - Battersea Reach, I.S. Gardner Museum
Nocturne: Blue and Silver - Battersea Reach, I.S. Gardner Museum

The painting might possibly be identified with Nocturne: Battersea [YMSM 120] or Nocturne: Blue and Silver - Battersea Reach [YMSM 152], or a similar subject.

Notes:

1: Whistler to J. A. Chapman, 22 June 1874, GUW #11251.

2: Nocturnes, Marines & Chevalet Pieces, Goupil Gallery, London, 1892 (cat. no. 25).

3: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 160).

Last updated: 4th June 2020 by Margaret