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

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YMSM 540
Trouville Beach

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899/1900
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: oil
Support: unknown
Size: unknown
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown
Frame: unknown

Trouville Beach

Titles

Only one title has been suggested:

  • ‘Trouville Beach’ (1900, Carnegie Institute). 1
  • 'Trouville Beach' (1980, YMSM). 2

Description

A beach scene.

Site

Trouville on the French coast. Whistler was in Trouville more than once and painted several seascapes there, particularly in 1865 (e.g. Harmony in Blue and Silver: Trouville [YMSM 064]), and in the 1890s (e.g. The Shore, Pourville [YMSM 521]).

Notes:

1: Fifth Annual Exhibition, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1900-1901 (cat. no. 259).

2: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 540).

Last updated: 14th December 2020 by Margaret