The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.1009
Flesh-colour and green - Battledore and Shuttlecock
Date
Flesh-colour and green – Battledore and Shuttlecock was exhibited in 1886.
It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1009).
Images
Flesh-colour and green – Battledore and Shuttlecock, whereabouts unknown
Subject
Description
A newspaper critic (in The Bat, 4 May 1886, p. 123) described it: 'a picture of a child's garden party called Batteldore and Shuttlecock, which reveals more than could every fleck of every feather be counted in the tips of the toys.'
Site
The unusual title suggests that this showed a game of shuttlecock, probably set in a garden setting.
Technique
Technique
Unknown.
History
Exhibitions
- 1886: 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 56) as 'Flesh-colour and green – Battledore and Shuttlecock'.
A journalist in one gossipy journal, The Bat, described it on 4 May 1886 as 'a picture of a child's garden party called Batteldore and Shuttlecock, which reveals more than could every fleck of every feather be counted in the tips of the toys.'
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1009) as 'Flesh-colour and green – Battledore and Shuttlecock'.
Catalogues 1855-1905
- 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 56) as 'Flesh-colour and green – Battledore and Shuttlecock'.
Newspapers 1855-1905
- The Bat, 4 May 1886, p. 123.