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

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M.0307
Sketch of 'Blue and Silver: Blue Wave, Biarritz'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1862
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: E. R. & J. Pennell Collection
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: cream laid paper
Size: 8 7/16" x 10 5/8" (215 x 270 mm)
Signature: letter signed 'Jim Whistler'
Inscription: 'Matelot / espagnol / en rouge chaloupe / en danger / dans les brisants rochers pecheur / femmes / Ciel - soir mer foncée / presque noir des brisants qui / se suivent de-puis le fond / jusqu'au premier plan', in letter

Sketch of 'Blue and Silver: Blue Wave, Biarritz'

Provenance

  • 1862: sent to Ignace-Henri-Jean-Théodore Fantin-Latour (1836-1904), Paris;
  • 1904: bequeathed to his wife, Victoria Fantin-Latour née Dubourg (1840-1926);
  • 1926/1930: sold by her executors, M. M. Tempelaer, to Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1855-1936) ;
  • 1936: transferred to the E. R. and J. Pennell collection, Library of Congress.

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 307).

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 9th March 2021 by Margaret