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

 

YMSM 483
Harmony in Blue and Silver: Beaching the Boat, Étretat

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1897-1898
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 1943.175
Medium: oil
Support: wood
Size: 136 x 235 mm (5 3/8 x 9 1/4")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none
Frame: Grau-style, American, M. Grieve, ca 1930

Harmony in Blue and Silver: Beaching the Boat, Étretat

Harmony in Blue and Silver: Beaching the Boat, Étretat probably dates from August or September 1897. 1

Harmony in Blue and Silver: Beaching the Boat, Étretat, Fogg Museum of Art
Harmony in Blue and Silver: Beaching the Boat, Étretat, Fogg Museum of Art

However, it was probably touched up and completed in the following year, for on 5 June 1898 Whistler wrote to Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932), 'I went and signed, and put the finishing touches upon, the little marine of Etretat for you ... It is now a little beauty!' 2

Notes:

1: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 483).

2: [5 June 1898], GUW #09779.

Last updated: 18th October 2020 by Margaret