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

 

M.0768
Note in flesh-colour and red

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1879/1880
Collection: Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College
Accession Number: 2000.108
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 11 7/8 x 4 3/8" (302 x 111 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Note in flesh-colour and red

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no 768) as 'Note in flesh-colour and red'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 41).

Books on Whistler

  • Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, repr. f.p. 52.

Websites

  • The Davis website as 'Venice Street'.

Last updated: 10th February 2021 by Margaret