The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Peacock Room dates from August 1876. Whistler's mother Anna Matilda Whistler (1804-1881) was unable to visit Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room y178 but wrote that 'when dear Jemie came to me for a day or two's rest last month, he with his pencil enabled me to fancy it.' ¹

The drawing is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 585).

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Subject

Site

Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room was decorated by Whistler in 49 Princes Gate, London: this drawing, however, was made for Whistler's mother in her lodgings at Talbot House, 43 St Mary's Terrace, Hastings.

Technique

Composition

Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room, Freer Gallery of Art

This was a sketch or sketches of Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room y178.

History

Provenance

Unknown.

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 585) as 'Peacock Room'.
• Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (room, cat. no. 178).