The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Silver and Red: Dordrecht probably dates from 1884.

Silver and Red: Dordrecht, Colby Museum of Art

It may be Note in Rose and Silver - Dordrecht m0970.

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 971).

Images

Subject

Site

The town of Dordrecht, on the Maas, in the Netherlands.

Technique

Technique

Unknown.

History

Provenance

Unknown. However, it is very likely that this is Note in Rose and Silver - Dordrecht m0970.

Exhibitions

• 1885: The sixty-second Annual Exhibition, Society of British Artists, London, 1885 (cat. no. 635) as 'Silver and Red: Dordrecht'.

It was mentioned in several papers including the Building News, 24 April 1885, Morning Post, 25 April 1885, and The Graphic, 25 April 1885.

Silver and Red: Dordrecht, Colby Museum of Art

Although most descriptions are too vague to identify it, one suggests it may have been Note in Rose and Silver - Dordrecht m0970: The Graphic (25 April 1885), which praised Whistler's 'slight, but suggestive, out of doors studies in watercolour. The little view of "Dordrecht" is especially noteworthy for its picturesque beauty and purity of tone.'

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 971) as 'Silver and Red: Dordrecht'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• The sixty-second Annual Exhibition, Society of British Artists, London, 1885 (cat. no. 635) as 'Silver and Red: Dordrecht'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

• [The Society of British Artists], Building News, London, 24 April 1885.
• Anon., 'The Society of British Artists', Morning Post, London, 28 April 1885, p. 5..
• Anon., 'Society of British Artists', The Graphic, London, 25 April 1885.
• Anon., 'Society of British Artists', The Daily News, London, 27 April 1885, p. 7.