Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1233) as 'Blue and Rose: The Open Fan'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

EXHIBITION:

• Watercolours, Pastels, Drawings in Black and White, Sculptures and Bronzes By British and Foreign Artists Including A Selection of Works by H. B. Brabazon, and A Group of Works by the late James McNeill Whistler, W. Marchant & Co., Goupil Gallery, London, 1903 (cat. no. 169) as 'La Femme à l'éventail.'
• Watercolours, Pastels, Drawings in Black and White, Sculptures and Bronzes By British and Foreign Artists Including A Selection of Works by H. B. Brabazon, and A Group of Works by the late James McNeill Whistler, Goupil Gallery, London, 1904 (cat. no. 34) as 'La Femme à l'éventail.'

SALE:

• Drouot, Paris, 25 November 1903 (lot 3, repr.) as 'La Femme à l'éventail'.

Journals 1855-1905

• Anon., 'The Whistler Sale in Paris', The Athenaeum, no. 3971, 5 December 1903, p. 761.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION:

• Stubbs, Burns A., Paintings, Pastels, Drawings, Prints and Copper Plates by and attributed to American and European Artists, together with a List of Original Whistleriana in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1948, p. 23 as 'Blue and Rose: The Open Fan',
• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, pp. 50, 277, pl. 280.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1909.124a-b.