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

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M.0477
Study for a Nocturne

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1872/1875
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: chalk
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 4 3/4 x 9/ 7/16" (120 x 240 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Study for a Nocturne

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no 477) as 'Study for a Nocturne'.

Books on Whistler

  • Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, pp. 14-15, repr. f.p. 14.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Spink, Nesta, Whistler: The Later Years, University of Michigan Art Gallery, Ann Arbor, 1978 (checklist, cat. no. 42).
  • Whistler: Themes and Variations, Montgomery Art Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, CA; Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA; Stanford University Museum of Art, CA, 1978 (cat. no. 14) as 'Study for a Nocturne' (repr. p. 24).

Last updated: 28th May 2021 by Margaret