Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 903) as 'Convalescent' or 'Petit Déjeuner; note in opal'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Probably 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884 (cat. no. 13) as 'Petit Déjeuner; note in opal'.
• Thirty-eighth Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Glasgow, 1899 (cat. no. 538) as .Convalescent'.
• Spring Exhibition, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 1903 (cat. no. 214, repr.).
• Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 48, repr.) as 'The Convalescent'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

• Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Gallery', Daily News, London, 21 May 1884, p. 7.
• Anon., 'Messrs Dowdeswell's Gallery', The Morning Post, London, 24 May 1884, p. 5.

Journals 1906-Present

• Wedmore, Frederick, ‘Mr Whistler's Arrangement in Flesh Colour and Gray’, The Academy, vol. 25, 24 May 1884, p. 374.
• ‘An Enthusiast’, [Sickert, W. R.], 'Mr Whistler and His Art', Artist, vol. 5, 1 June 1884, p. 199-201.