Catalogues Raisonnés

• Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 24), plate 22, as 'At the Piano'.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. nos. 292, 1539).

Authored by Whistler

• None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts. MDCCCLX. The Ninety-Second, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1860 (cat. no. 598) as 'At the Piano'.
• Catalogue of the Pictures and Drawings Selected from the Works of the Leading Artists of the Day at the Gallery, 14 Berners Street, W., London, 1862 (catalogue untraced) (cat. no. unknown).
• Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artistes vivants exposés au Palais des Champs-Elysées, Paris, 1867 (cat. no. 1561) as 'Au Piano'.
• The International Society of Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers (ed.), Catalogue of the Exhibition of International Art, Knightsbridge, London, 1898 (cat. no. 177) as 'At the Piano'.
• The International Society of Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers (ed.), Illustrated Souvenir Catalogue of the Exhibition of International Art, Knightsbridge, London, 1898 (cat. no. 177, repr.) as 'The Piano Picture'.
• The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, MDCCCXCIX. The Seventy-Third, Edinburgh, 1899 (cat. no. 143) as 'The Piano'.
• 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. 75) as 'The Piano Picture', and as 'At the Piano' in the deluxe edition.
• Exposition des œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l’École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 2bis) as 'Le Piano'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

• Anon., 'Exhibition Of The Royal Academy (Second notice)', The Times, London, 17 May 1860, p. 11.
• Child, Theodore, 'Mr Whistler’s Ten O’Clock: A Transatlantic Review', The Sun, New York, vol. 54, 5 December 1886, p. 7.
• Anon., 'The International Society of Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers', Pall Mall Gazette, London, 16 May 1898, p. 8.
• Anon., 'International Society of Art', Glasgow Herald, Glasgow, 17 May 1898, p. 4.
• Anon., 'The Nations at Knighstbridge. A Great Art Exhibition', London Daily News, London, 17 May 1898, p. 6.
• Anon., 'The International Gallery, Morning Post, London, 19 May 1898, p. 8.
• Anon., 'The Art of the Day', The Sketch, London, 24 August 1898, p. 25.
• Anon., 'New Pictures', Dublin Daily Express, Dublin, 12 November 1898, p. 3.

Journals 1855-1905

• Brownell, William C., 'Whistler in Painting and Etching', Scribner's Monthly, vol. 18, no. 4, August 1879, pp. 481-95, wood engraving repr. p. 485.
• Sickert, Walter Richard, 'Whistler To-day', The Fortnightly Review, vol. 57, new series, vol. 51, April 1892, pp. 543-47, at p. 546.
• Jenney, Major W. L. B., 'Whistler and Old Sandy in the Fifties', American Architect, vol. 59, January 1898, pp. 4-5.
• Sauter, G., ‘The International Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Gravers’, The Studio, vol. 14, July 1898, pp. 109-20, at pp. 111 and 115, repr. p. 115.
• Fry, Roger, 'Mr Whistler', The Athenaeum, no. 3952, 25 July 1903, pp. 113-14.
• Andrews, Annulet, 'Cousin Butterfly: Being some Memories of Whistler', Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, vol. 73, no. 435, March 1904, pp. 318-27, at p. 326.
• Anon., 'The Work of James McNeill Whistler', The Edinburgh Review, Edinburgh, vol. 201, no. 412, April 1905, pp. 445-67, at pp. 449-50.
• Bénédite, Léonce, 'Artistes Contemporains: Whistler', Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 33, 1905, pp. 403-10, 496-511; vol. 34, 1905, pp. 142-58, 231-46, at pp. 407-09.

Monographs

• None.

Books on Whistler

• Bowdoin, William Goodrich, James McNeill Whistler; the Man and his Work, New York and London, 1901, pp. 15, 39-40.
• Cary, Elizabeth Luther, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study, with a Tentative List of Artist’s Works, New York, 1907, pp. 14-15, repr.
• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler: Uneasy Pieces, New York, 2004, pp. 18, 20-25, 40, 73, 228, 390 note 23, repr. pp. 19-20.
• Duret, Théodore, Histoire de J. McN. Whistler et de son oeuvre, Paris, 1904, pp. 15-16.
• Eddy, Arthur Jerome, Recollections and Impressions of James A. McNeill Whistler, Philadelphia and London, 1903, p. 87.
• Fleming, Gordon, The Young Whistler 1834-66, London, Boston, Sydney, 1978, p. 164.
• Ford, Sheridan (ed.), The Gentle Art of Making Enemies: With Some Whistler Stories Old and New, New York, 1890, pp. 154-55, 'Butterfly Calumny'.
• Glazer, Lee, Emily Jacobsen, Blyth McCarthy, and Katherine Roeder, Whistler in Watercolor. Lovely Little Games, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2019, p. 206, repr. p. 207.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., Susan Galassi, Aileen Ribeiro, and Patricia de Montfort, Whistler, Women and Fashion, New Haven and London, 2003, pp. 69-70, repr. fig. 70.
• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, pp. 74-75, 82-83, 90-91, 99, 133, 140.
• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, pp. 78-79, 82-83, 285.
• Petri, Grischka, Arrangement in Business: The Art Markets and the Career of James McNeill Whistler, Hildesheim, 2011, pp. 33-35, 45, 57, 59, 62, 64-65, 68, 119, 145, 506, 534, 612, 614, 625, 699.
• Sickert, Bernhard, Whistler, London and New York, 1908, pp. 7, 102.
• Singletary, Suzanne M., James McNeill Whistler and France: A Dialogue in Paint, Poetry, and Music, London and New York, 2017, pp. 3, 19, 51, 76, 79, 102, 104, 111-14, 116-17, 119, 122, repr. pl. 15.
• Sutherland, Daniel E., Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake, New Haven and London, 2014, pp. 51-53, 57, 59-60, 62-63, 71, 78, 87, 102, 299, 309.
• Sutton, Denys, Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler, London, 1963, pp. 25-27.
• Way, Thomas Robert, and G. R. Dennis, The Art of James McNeill Whistler: An Appreciation, 1st edition, London, 1903, pp. 7, 15, 18, 22.

Books, General

• Dayan, Peter, Art as Music, Music as Poetry, Poetry as Art, from Whistler to Stravinsky and Beyond, Farnham, 2011.
• Du Maurier, Daphne, (ed.), The Young George du Maurier: A Selection of his Letters, 1860-67, London, 1951, p. 4.
• Gimpel, René, Journal d'un collectionneur marchand de tableaux, [new, expanded edition], Paris, 2011, p. 121.
• Hobson, George Douglas, Some Thoughts on the Organisation of Art after the War, London, 1946, p. 37.
• Jullien, Adolphe, Fantin-Latour, sa vie et ses amitiés, Paris, 1909, painting by Fantin-Latour, repr. f.p. 20.
• Reff, Theodore, Degas: The Artist’s Mind, New York, 1976, p. 27.
• Robins, Anna Gruetzner (ed.), Walter Sickert: the Complete Writings on Art, Oxford, 2000, pp. 195-96.
• Watanabe, Toshio, High Victorian Japonisme, Berne and New York, 1991, pp. 224-25, 230.

Catalogues 1906-Present

EXHIBITION:

• Dorment, Richard, and Margaret F. MacDonald (eds), James McNeill Whistler, Tate Gallery, London, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1994-1995 (shown in Washington only) 1994-1995 (cat. no. 11).
• Curry, David Park, Barbara Weinberg, and Doreen Bolger (eds), American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885-1915, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1994, repr. p. 305 (not exhibited).
• Merrill, Linda, et al., After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Painting, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 2003, repr. p. 11, fig. 2 (not exhibited).
• Andreeva, Galina, and Margaret F. MacDonald, Whistler and Russia, State Tretyakow Gallery, Moscow, 2006, p. 24, repr. (not exhibited).

SALE:

• Christie's, London, 7 July 1939 (lot 99).

Journals 1906-Present

• Walter Sickert, "Where Paul and I Differ," Art News, no. 14, February 1910, p. 113.
• Wood, T. Martin, 'The Edmund Davis Collection', Studio, vol. 64, March/May 1915, pp. 79-98, 228-45, at p. 83.
• Ionides, Luke, 'Memories: Whistler in the Quartier Latin', Transatlantic Review, vol. 1, January 1924, pp. 37-52, at p. 40.
• Sandberg, John, ' “Japonisme” and Whistler', The Burlington Magazine, vol. 106, November 1964, pp. 500-07, at p. 503.
• Reff, Theodore, 'The Butterfly and the Ox', Art News, vol. 70, no. 1, March 1971, pp. 26-31, 73-74, reprinted in Degas: The Artist’s Mind, pp. 15-36, at pp. 28, 31, repr. p. 28.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., 'Whistler: The Painting of the “Mother” ', Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 85, February 1975, pp. 73-88, at pp. 81-82, n. 36.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., 'Whistler on Exhibition', Magazine Antiques, vol. 147, June 1995, pp. 863-73, repr. p. 868.
• Hopkinson, Martin J., 'Whistler’s First Print Exhibition', Print Quarterly, vol. 26, 2009, pp. 257-67, at pp. 258, 261, 263.

Websites

• Taft Museum website at taftmuseum.org.
• Frick Art Reference Library, FRESCO, Frick Research Catalog online at http://arcade.nyarc.org.
• 'PBS Whistler documentary features Taft painting', article, Taft Museum website, cincinnati.com at https://eu.cincinnati.com.

Unpublished

• Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 28) 'At the piano'.

Other

• Film: James McNeill Whistler and the Case for Beauty, PBS Arts, 12 September 2014, Online for US customers.