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

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YMSM 525
Blue Sea Piece, Dieppe

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1897/1899
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: oil
Support: unknown
Size: unknown
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown
Frame: unknown

Blue Sea Piece, Dieppe

Titles

Only one title has been suggested:

  • ‘Blue sea piece Dieppe’ (1901/1902, Whistler). 1
  • 'Blue Sea Piece, Dieppe' (1980, YMSM). 2

Description

A seascape, presumably with blue sea.

Site

Dieppe, a busy port and seaside resort on the French coast.

Blue and Silver: Dieppe, New Britain Museum of American Art
Blue and Silver: Dieppe, New Britain Museum of American Art

Whistler painted more than a dozen pictures in Dieppe including Argent et violet: Dieppe [YMSM 333], The Sea Shore, Dieppe [YMSM 379], and Blue and Silver: Dieppe [YMSM 499].

Notes:

1: GUW #13662.

2: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 525).

Last updated: 8th April 2019 by Margaret