Violet [Note?]...The Return of the Fishing Boats, c. 1885

Not on View

Medium

watercolor on paperboard

Dimensions

overall: 21.2 x 12.7 cm (8 3/8 x 5 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 1995, no. 1036

Accession Number

1991.7.2

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

center right in watercolor: [Whistler's device]; upper center on verso in graphite: No 10

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

Carstairs, Charles Stewart
Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Knoedler & Company, M.
Mellon, Paul

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.