The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0987
Blue and Silver: Honfleur
Date
Blue and Silver: Honfleur was first exhibited in 1885.
It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 987).
Images
Blue and Silver: Honfleur, Whereabouts unknown
Subject
Description
The Saturday Review, 25 April 1885, described it as 'a true impression of aerial, vaporous distance.' This hardly helps to identify it.
Site
Honfleur is a town with a busy harbour, at the mouth of the Seine. It is on the south side of the Seine, across from Le Havre.
Technique
Technique
The critic of the Building News, 24 April 1885, described the technique as 'colour effects ... the work of a brush rapidly washed in.'
History
Provenance
Unknown.
Exhibitions
- 1885: The sixty-second Annual Exhibition, Society of British Artists, London, 1885 (cat. no. 634) as 'Blue and Silver: Honfleur'.
It was reviewed in the Building News, 24 April 1885, and Saturday Review, 25 April 1885.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 987) as 'Blue and Silver: Honfleur'.
Catalogues 1855-1905
- The sixty-second Annual Exhibition, Society of British Artists, London, 1885 (cat. no. 634) as 'Blue and Silver: Honfleur'.
Journals 1906-Present
- Anon., [Society of British Artists], Building News, 24 April 1885.
- Anon., [Society of British Artists], Saturday Review, 25 April 1885.