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. 506), plate 326, as 'Violet and Rose: Carmen qui rit'.

Authored by Whistler

• None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• 2nd Exhibition, Pictures, Drawings, Prints and Sculptures, International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, London, 1899 (cat. no. 133) as 'Violet and Rose – Carmen qui rit'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

• Anon., 'At Knightsbridge, Daily Telegraph & Courier (London), 10 May 1899, p. 10.
• Anon., [review of ISSPG], Echo, London, 15 May 1899.
• Anon., [Venatrix'], 'The International Society's Exhibition', Gentlewoman, London, 20 May 1899, p. 34.

Journals 1855-1905

• The Nation, 29 June 1899, vol. 68, p. 493.

Monographs

• None.

Books on Whistler

• Bell, Nancy R. E., James McNeill Whistler, London, 1904, p. 33.
• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 2, p. 203.
• Sickert, Bernhard, Whistler, London and New York, 1908, p. 167 (cat. no. 115; confuses it with Crimson note: Carmen [YMSM 441]).
• Spencer, Robin (ed.), Whistler: A Retrospective, New York, 1989, p. 329.
• Sutton, Denys, Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler, London, 1963, repr. f.p. 128.

Books, General

• Holroyd, Michael, Augustus John: A Biography, I: The Years of Innocence, London, 1974, vol. 1, p. 88.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Young, A. McLaren, James McNeill Whistler, Arts Council Gallery, London, and Knoedler Galleries, New York, 1960 (cat. no. 73).
• Spencer, Robin, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1969 (cat. no. 51).
• Pickvance, Ronald, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903): An Exhibition of Works from the University of Glasgow Collection, Nottingham University Art Gallery, Nottingham, 1970 (cat. no. 16).
• Young, A. McLaren, Glasgow University's Pictures, Colnaghi, London, 1973 (cat. no. 93) (not exhibited).

Journals 1906-Present

• None.

Websites

• The Hunterian website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk/#/details/ecatalogue/41219.
• Art UK website at https://artuk.org.

Unpublished

• None.

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.