The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Argent et violet: Dieppe probably dates from Whistler's visit to Dieppe in the autumn of 1885. ¹ It was first exhibited in Exposition Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1887 (cat. no. 179).

Images

Subject

Titles

Only one title is known:

• 'Argent et violet: Dieppe' (1887, Petit). ²
• 'Argent et violet: Dieppe' (1980, YMSM). ³

Description

Unknown.

Variations in violet and grey – Market Place, Dieppe,Metropolitan Museum of Art

It is possible that Argent et violet: Dieppe was a watercolour, in which case it could have been Variations in violet and grey - Market Place, Dieppe m1024.

Site

The coastal town and ferry port of Dieppe in France.

Technique

Technique

Variations in violet and grey – Market Place, Dieppe,Metropolitan Museum of Art

It is possible that this was a watercolour, possibly the elaborate, highly finished watercolour, Variations in violet and grey - Market Place, Dieppe m1024.

Conservation History

Unknown.

Frame

Unknown.

History

Provenance

Unknown.

Exhibitions

• 1887: Exposition Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1887 (cat. no. 179) as 'Argent et violet: Dieppe'.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980, cat. no. 333.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1024) as 'Argent et violet: Dieppe'.

Authored by Whistler

• None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Exposition Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1887 (cat. no. 179) as 'Argent et violet: Dieppe'.

Journals 1855-1905

• None.

Monographs

• None.

Books on Whistler

• None.

Books, General

• None.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• None.

Journals 1906-Present

• None.

Websites

• None.

Unpublished

• None.

Other

• None.