Nocturne
1878
Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

Artwork overview
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Medium
lithotint in black with chine collé on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 17.1 × 25.9 cm (6 3/4 × 10 3/16 in.)
sheet: 36.3 × 55 cm (14 5/16 × 21 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1943.3.8664
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Catalogue Raisonné
Stratis & Tedeschi 1998, no. 8, ii/ii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Charles Sessler [1854-1935], Philadelphia); purchased April 2, 1931 by Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1931
Etchings, Lithographs, Original Drawings, and Autograph Letters by James A. McNeill Whistler, The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1931.
1985
Landscape Prints from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985, no cat.
1995
Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.
2009
The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; NGA; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, 2009 - 2010
Bibliography
1896
Way, Thomas Robert. Mr. Whistler's Lithographs: The Catalogue. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1896; New York: H. Wunderlich & Co., 1905: no. 5.
1998
Stratis, Harriet K., and Martha Tedeschi, eds. The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, vol. 1. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998, pp. 63-66, no. 8, ii/ii.
Inscriptions
in graphite: Whistler 1878
Wikidata ID
Q65022083