Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1231) as 'Rose et Opale'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Probably “Notes” – “Harmonies” – “Nocturnes”, H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 1889 (cat. no. 39) as 'A Rose Note'.
• 1892: possibly Société des Pastellistes français, Goupil, Paris, 1892 (ex cat.).

Newspapers 1855-1905

• New York Herald, New York, 2 March 1889.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 272, pl. 271.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1902.194a-c, as 'Pour le pastel: Rose and Opal'.