Violet [Note?]...The Return of the Fishing Boats
c. 1885
Artist, American, 1834 - 1903
Artwork overview
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Medium
watercolor on paperboard
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 21.2 x 12.7 cm (8 3/8 x 5 in.)
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Accession
1991.7.2
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Catalogue Raisonné
MacDonald 1995, no. 1036
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Richard A. Canfield, Providence, Rhode Island. (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), 1914. Charles S. Carstairs [1865-1928], 1915. (sale, Christie's, London, 19 December 1972, no. 58). (Basket & Day); acquired by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon; gift 1991 to NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1991
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, 240-241, color repro.
Bibliography
1986
Mellon 1986, 122-125, fig. 10.
1991
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: p.240.
1995
MacDonald, Margaret F. James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1995, no. 1036.
Inscriptions
center right in watercolor: [Whistler's device]; upper center on verso in graphite: No 10
Wikidata ID
Q64580666