Nocturne

1878

James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

James McNeill Whistler

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithotint in black with chine collé on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • 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 Number

    1943.3.8664

  • 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

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