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. 398), plate 249, as 'Arrangement in Black and Gold: Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac'.
• Spink, Nesta R., Harriet K. Stratis, and Martha Tedeschi, The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, (gen. eds, Harriet K. Stratis and Martha Tedeschi), 2 vols., Chicago, 1998 (cat. nos. 84-85), pp. 262-67.

Authored by Whistler

• None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Exposition Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Champ de Mars, Paris, 1894 (cat. no. 1186) as 'Noir er or; – portrait du comte Robert de Montesquiou'.
• Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 39) as 'Arrangement in Black and Gold "Le Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac".'

Newspapers 1855-1905

• Saint-Charles, ‘Un tableau de Whistler’, Figaro, Paris, 27 November 1891, quoted by Barbier, Carl P., (ed.), Correspondance Mallarmé-Whistler: Histoire de la grande amitié de leurs dernières années, Paris, 1964, pp. 128-29.
• Geffroy, Gustave, La Justice, Paris, 25 April 1894.
• Anon., 'The Salon of the Champs de Mars', Morning Post, London, 26 April 1894, p. 6.
• Anon., 'The Art of the Day', The Sketch, London, 16 May 1894, pp. 25-27.
• Anon., Penny Illustrated Paper, London, 9 June 1894, p. 4.

Journals 1855-1905

• Anon., 'Le chef-d'oeuvre de Vistlaire', Punch, London, 26 May 1894, caricature repr. p. 252.
• Saint-Cère, Jacques, 'Une heure chez le Comte Robert de Montesquiou, Revue Illustrée, 1894, pp. 117-24, repr. p. 121.
• Phillips, Claude, 'The Salons: Salon of the Champs de Mars', Magazine of Art, vol. 17, 1894, pp. 379-84, at p. 381.
• Wyzewa, Teodor de, 'Le Salon de 1894: 'La Peinture', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, period 3, vol. 11, June 1894, pp. 449-68; 'La Sculpture', vol. 12, July 1894, pp. 25-42, at p. 42.
• Anon. [= Charles Whibley], 'Art and Mr Whistler', The Art Journal, vol. 46, no. 120, December 1894, pp. 358-60, at p. 358, repr. p. 361.
• Forthuny, Pascal, 'Notes sur James Whistler', Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 30, no. 557, 3rd series, November 1903, pp. 381-91, wood engraving by H. Guerard repr. f.p. 390.

Monographs

• Munhall, Edgar, Whistler and Montesquiou. The Butterfly and the Bat, New York, 1995, pp. 12-13, 58-119.

Books on Whistler

• Barbier, Carl P., (ed.), Correspondance Mallarmé-Whistler: Histoire de la grande amitié de leurs dernières années, Paris, 1964, pp. 124, 128-29, 142, 195.
• Duret, Théodore, Histoire de J. McN. Whistler et de son oeuvre, Paris, 1904, pp. 125-26, 172-73.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., (ed.) Whistler's Mother: An American Icon, Aldershot and Burlington, 2003, p. 71.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., Susan Galassi, Aileen Ribeiro, and Patricia de Montfort, Whistler, Women and Fashion, New Haven and London, 2003, pp. 169, 190, 192, 220, repr. fig. 161; jewellery given to B. Whistler, repr. fig. 186.
• Merrill, Linda, With Kindest Regards. The Correspondence of Charles Lang Freer and James McNeill Whistler, 1890-1903, Washington, DC, and London, 1995, p. 212.
• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, p. 215; vol. 2, pp. 94, 297.
• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, pp. 270-72.
• Petri, Grischka, Arrangement in Business: The Art Markets and the Career of James McNeill Whistler, Hildesheim, 2011, pp. 174, 175, 457, 510, 529, 641, 699.
• Spalding, Frances, Whistler, Oxford and New York, 1979, pp. 71-72.
• Sutherland, Daniel E., Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake, New Haven and London, 2014, pp. 250, 279, 332.
• Sutton, Denys, James McNeill Whistler: Paintings, Etchings, Pastels and Watercolours, London, 1966, p. 45.
• Taylor, Hilary, James McNeill Whistler, London, 1978, p. 128.
• Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, pp. 105-06.

Books, General

• Eells, Emily, Proust's Cup of Tea: Homoeroticism and Victorian Culture, Aldershot and Burlington, VT, 2002, p. 131.
• Jullian, P., Robert de Montesquiou, Paris, 1965.
• McConkey, Kenneth, Edwardian Portraits: Images of an Age of Opulence, Antique Collectors' Club, 1987, p. 120.
• Montesquiou, Robert de, Les Pas effacés: Mémoires, 3 vols, Paris, 1923, vol. 2, pp. 257, 259-60.
• Munhall, Edgar, Whistler and Montesquiou. The Butterfly and the Bat, New York, 1995, 12-13, 58-119.
• Newton, Joy, La Chauve-Souris et le Papillon. Correspondance Montesquiou-Whistler, Glasgow, 1990.
• Preston, Kerrison (ed.), Letters of W. Graham Robertson, London, 1953, pp. 367-68.
• Ricatte, Robert (ed.), Goncourt, Edmond de & Jules de. Journal. Mémoires de la vie littéraire, 22 vols., Monaco, 1956, vol. 18, pp. 52-53, 187-88; vol. 20, pp. 46, 50.
• Robertson, W. Graham, Time Was: the Reminiscences of W. Graham Robertson, London and New York, 1931, p. 237.
• Ryskamp, Charles, Edgar Munhall, Bernice F. Davidson, Susan Grace Galassi and Nadia Tscherny, Art in The Frick Collection: Paintings, Sculpture, Decorative Arts, New York, 1996.
• Smith, Logan Pearsall, Unforgotten Years, London, 1938, pp. 186-89.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION:

• The Frick Collection (ed.), Paintings: American, British, Dutch, Flemish and German,, vol. 1, Princeton, 1968, pp. 21-25.
• Di Liberto, ‎Richard, Charles Ryskamp, ‎John Bigelow Taylor (eds), Art in the Frick Collection: paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, New York, 1996, pp. 116-17.

EXHIBITION:

• 76th Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1907 (cat. no. 126) as 'Count Robert'.
• Anon., 'Superb Collection of Thirty-four Works by James McNeill Whistler', Academy Notes, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, vol. 6, no. 2, April 1911, pp. 33-38 (cat. no. 2).
• Paintings in oil and pastel by James McNeill Whistler, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 32).
• Merrill, Linda, et al., After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Painting, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 2003, pp. 89-90, 148, 222, repr. fig. 73 (not exhibited).

Journals 1906-Present

• Munhall, Edgar, ‘Whistler’s Portrait of Robert de Montesquiou’, Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 71, 1968, pp. 231-42.
• McConkey, Kenneth, 'No tampering, no faking, no artifice. Her First Communion by John Lavery', The British Art Journal, vol. 21, no. 1, Spring 2020, pp. 54-59, at p. 55-56.

Websites

• The Frick Collection website at http://collections.frick.org.

Unpublished

• Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 192).

Other

• Parkerson, Sarah Lawrence, Variations in Gold: The Stylistic Development of the Picture Frames used by James McNeill Whistlers, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2007.
• Willsdon, Clare A. P., review of Suzanne Singletary, James McNeill Whistler and France: A Dialogue in Paint, Poetry, and Music, London and New York, 2016, in CAA Reviews, 19 November 2018 at http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/3471#.X50zTIj7SUk.