The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0969
A Little Red Note: Dordrecht
Date
A Little Red Note: Dordrecht dates from 1884.
A Little Red Note: Dordrecht, Freer Gallery of Art
It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 969).
Images
A Little Red Note: Dordrecht, Freer Gallery of Art
Subject
Site
A Little Red Note: Dordrecht, Freer Gallery of Art
The river Maas, in the Netherlands, with the windmill of Welgelegen in Zwijndrecht in the distance. 1
Technique
Technique
See technical details in Whistler in Watercolour, Freer|Sackler, Washington, 2019, website.
History
Provenance
- By 1905: owned by W. Bryant.
- 1908: bought from Wunderlich's, New York, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit;
- 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.
Exhibitions
- Winter Exhibition, Society of British Artists, London, 1884 (cat. no. 644) as 'A Little Red Note: Dordrecht'.
- 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. 112).
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 969) as 'A Little Red Note: Dordrecht'.
Catalogues 1855-1905
- Winter Exhibition, Society of British Artists, London, 1884 (cat. no. 644) as 'A Little Red Note: Dordrecht'.
- 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. 112).
Newspapers 1855-1905
- Manchester Courier, Manchester, 8 December 1884.
- Daily News, London, 11 December 1884.
- Illustrated London News , London, [December 1884].
- The World, London, 24 December 1884.
Books on Whistler
- Glazer, Lee, Emily Jacobson, Blythe McCarthy, and Katherine Roeder, Whistler in Watercolor: Lovely Little Games, New Haven and London, 2019.
- Heijbroek, J. F., and Margaret F. MacDonald, Whistler and Holland, Zwolle and Amsterdam, 1997, pp. 55-56, 58, repr. fig viii, photograph of site, fig. 60.
Catalogues 1906-Present
- Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 186, pl. 109.
Websites
- Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1908.15a-b, as 'A Little Red Note–Dordrecht'.
- Whistler in Watercolour, Freer|Sackler, Washington, 2019, website.
Notes:
1: Heijbroek 1997 [more], p. 55-56, 58, repr. fig viii, photograph of site, fig. 60.