The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0399
r.: Blue and Gold; v.: Ship
Date
r.: Blue and Gold; v.: Ship date from 1871/1872.
r.: Blue and Gold, Fitzwilliam Museum
v.: Ship, Fitzwilliam Museum
They are fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 399).
Images
r.: Blue and Gold, Fitzwilliam Museum
v.: Ship, Fitzwilliam Museum
r.: A woman holding a spray of flowers, The Hunterian
Subject
Sitter
Not identified. She probably also modelled for r.: A woman holding a spray of flowers; v.: A woman holding up a scarf m0401.
Technique
Composition
r.: Blue and Gold, Fitzwilliam Museum
r.: A woman holding a spray of flowers, The Hunterian
The drawing on the recto of r.: Blue and Gold; v.: Ship m0399 and that on r.: A woman holding a spray of flowers; v.: A woman holding up a scarf m0401 are among several studies of a draped woman holding a flowering branch.
Frame
The frame has the label of 'Henry J. Murcott / Picture frame Manufactory / 16 Hanover Street / Long Acre WC.'
History
Provenance
- 1903: exhibited and possibly owned by William Stephen Marchant (1868-1925), London art dealer;
- 1903/1905: owned by Mrs Charles Julius Kino/Knowles (née Louisa Essinger) (b.1850, m.1874), Kensington Gore, London.
- 1940: deposited by Guy John Fenton Kino or Knowles (1879-1959) in the Fitzwilliam Museum;
- 1959: bequeathed to the Fitzwilliam Museum.
See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 399).
Exhibitions
- 1903-1904: Watercolours, Pastels, Drawings in Black and White, Sculptures and Bronzes By British and Foreign Artists Including A Selection of Works by H. B. Brabazon, and A Group of Works by the late James McNeill Whistler, W. Marchant & Co., Goupil Gallery, London, 1903 (cat. no. 31) as 'Blue and Gold'.
- 1905: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 118).
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 399) as 'r.: Blue and Gold; v.: Ship'.
Catalogues 1855-1905
- Watercolours, Pastels, Drawings in Black and White, Sculptures and Bronzes By British and Foreign Artists Including A Selection of Works by H. B. Brabazon, and A Group of Works by the late James McNeill Whistler, W. Marchant & Co., Goupil Gallery, London, 1903 (cat. no. 31) as 'Blue and Gold'.
- Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 118).
Catalogues 1906-Present
- Ayako Ono, ホイッスラー展. James McNeill Whistler Retrospective, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyōto, 2014, and Yokohama Museum of Art, 2014–2015.
Websites
- Fitzwilliam Museum website.