The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Vert et argent: Dieppe probably dates from Whistler's visit to Dieppe in the autumn of 1885, and was first exhibited in Exposition Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1887 (cat. no. 207). ¹

Images

Subject

Titles

Only one title is known:

• 'Vert et argent: Dieppe' (1887, Petit). ²
• 'Vert et argent: Dieppe' (1980, YMSM). ³

Description

Unknown.

Site

The coastal town and ferry port of Dieppe in France.

Technique

Technique

It is not known if this was an oil or watercolour.

Green and Silver. The Three Clouds, Thomas Colville Fine Art

It could possibly have been a watercolour, such as Green and Silver. The Three Clouds m1174.

Conservation History

Unknown.

Frame

Unknown.

History

Provenance

Unknown.

Exhibitions

• 1887: Exposition Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1887 (cat. no. 207) as 'Vert et argent: Dieppe'.

It is possible that it was a watercolour, and furthermore that it was shown in New York a year later in “Notes” – “Harmonies” – “Nocturnes”, H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 1889 (cat. no. 41): see Green and White - Dieppe m1038.

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. 334) as 'Vert et argent: Dieppe'.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. nos. 1040, 1038).

Authored by Whistler

• None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Exposition Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1887 (cat. no. 207) as 'Vert et argent: 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Unpublished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.