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

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M.1340
Study of 'Harmony in Blue and Silver: Trouville'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1892
Collection: New York Public Library
Accession Number: E. G. Kennedy Letterbook I/16-17
Medium: pen and purple ink
Support: green paper, envelope with printed heading of 'Restaurant & Hotel/ Foyot/ Rue de Tournon, 33/ Paris'
Size: 4 7/16 x 5 11/16" (113 x 144 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'This is the sketch I made you, of the fourth picture in question,/ while I was telling you the story. The picture that we both/ felt Mr. Bancroft had behaved so badly about, and which I said according/ to all proper feeling/ should be mine.' by Whistler; and in an unknown hand, 'E. G. Kennedy/ care Muller & Co/ 10 Doelenstraat/ Amsterdam'

Study of 'Harmony in Blue and Silver: Trouville'

Composition

Study of 'Harmony in Blue and Silver: Trouville', New York Public Library
Study of 'Harmony in Blue and Silver: Trouville', New York Public Library
Harmony in Blue and Silver: Trouville, I. S. Gardner Museum
Harmony in Blue and Silver: Trouville, I. S. Gardner Museum

The sketch shows Harmony in Blue and Silver: Trouville [YMSM 064].

Last updated: 16th February 2021 by Margaret