The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Green and Silver: Beaulieu, Touraine was painted on the Whistlers' honeymoon, in the autumn of 1888.

Green and Silver: Beaulieu, Touraine, Freer Gallery of Art

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1177).

Images

Subject

Site

Green and Silver: Beaulieu, Touraine, Freer Gallery of Art

Beaulieu, Touraine, France.

Technique

Technique

See technical details in Whistler in Watercolour, Freer|Sackler, Washington, 2019, website.

History

Provenance

• 1889: after being exhibited, returned by Wunderlich's, New York dealers, to Whistler.
• 1899: bought from Goupil, London art dealers, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919),
• 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1180).

Exhibitions

• 1889: “Notes” – “Harmonies” – “Nocturnes”, H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 1889 (cat. no. 4) as 'Green and Silver – Loches'.
• 1904: Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 90) as 'Green and Silver – Beaulieu'.

It was priced at 35 guineas in 1889, but remained unsold, and was returned after the exhibition by Wunderlich's on the SS Servia. ¹

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1180) as 'Green and Silver: Beaulieu, Touraine'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• “Notes” – “Harmonies” – “Nocturnes”, H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 1889 (cat. no. 4) as 'Green and Silver – Loches'.
• Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 90) as 'Green and Silver – Beaulieu'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

• New York Herald, 2 March 1889.
• Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Pictures at the Wunderlich Gallery', The Sun, New York, 10 March 1889, p. 14.

Books on Whistler

• Glazer, Lee, Emily Jacobson, Blythe McCarthy, and Katherine Roeder, Whistler in Watercolor: Lovely Little Games, New Haven and London, 2019.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 195, pl. 123.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1899.25a-b, as 'Green and Silver–Beaulieu, Touraine'.
• Whistler in Watercolour, Freer|Sackler, Washington, 2019, website.