The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Dordrecht dates from the summer of 1902, when Whistler was convalescing at the Hague, and, according to the artist Carel Nicolaas Storm van 's Gravesande (1841-1924), they both did some drawings in Dordrecht. ¹

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1710).

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Subject

Site

Dordrecht, on the river Maas, in the Netherlands.

According to Van s’Gravesande:

'J’ai passé quelque jours avec lui à Dordrecht, nous y avons fait des croquis […] On ne peut pas s’imaginer un compagnon plus gentil que lui, enjoué, aimable, sans aucune prétention, enthusiaste, et avec cela travailleur comme pas un.' ²

Translated: ' 'I spent a few days with him in Dordrecht, we did some sketches there ... You can not imagine a companion more kind than him, cheerful, kind, without any pretension, enthusiastic, and with that a worker like none other.'

Technique

Technique

Unknown.

History

Provenance

Unknown.

Exhibitions

Not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1709) as 'Dordrecht'.

Books on Whistler

• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 2, p. 281.