Titles

Possible titles include:

• 'The Little Bay: blue and brown' (1884, Dowdeswell). 1
• 'Blue and Brown: The Little Bay ' (1980, YMSM). 2

The preferred title 'Blue and Brown: The Little Bay' is based on the 1884 title, but with the colours given first, for consistency.

Description

A view of beach and sea.

Site

Possibly St Brelade's Bay, Jersey. A watercolour of St Brelade's Bay in the south-west of Jersey in the Channel Islands was exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1882 (cat. no. 342) as 'Blue and Brown - San Brelade's Bay'. It may have been related to this oil.

Whistler appears to have painted at least three oils on his trip to Jersey and Guernsey:Blue Wave: Near the Casquet Rocks [YMSM 231], Blue and Brown: The Little Bay [YMSM 232], and possibly Bleu et argent: La Mer, Jersey [YMSM 232a] and several watercolours, Blue and Brown - San Brelade's Bay [M.0856] and Note in Blue and Opal: Jersey [M.0857] (which is the only surviving painting known from this trip) and probably Beach scene with rocks [M.0855].