Beach Scene, probably 1885

Not on View

Medium

watercolor and traces of gouache on off-white paper mounted on paperboard

Dimensions

sheet: 12.6 × 21.2 cm (4 15/16 × 8 3/8 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. 1025

Accession Number

1991.7.3

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in watercolor: Whistler signature; upper left verso in graphite: (N 20) y / A11723; center verso in graphite: N20 y; lower left verso in graphite: No. 29 [crossed out]

Provenance

Miss Rosalind Birnie Philip; (P & D Colnaghi and Co., Ltd., London); Mrs. Frances L. Evans, Oxfordshire; (sale, Christie's, London, 19 May 1972, no. 37). Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon; gift 1991 to NGA.

Associated Names

Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
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, 220-221, color repro.

1993: The Great Age of British Watercolors 1750-1880, Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1993, no. 325.

1994: James McNeill Whistler, Tate Gallery, London; Musée d'Orsay, Paris; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994-1995, no. 144, as Green and pearl - La plage, Dieppe.

Bibliography

1986: Mellon 1986, 122, fig. 9.

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.220.

1993: Wilton, Andrew and Anne Lyles. The Great Age of British Watercolours 1750-1880. Exh. cat. Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1993: no. 325.

1994: James McNeill Whistler. Exh. cat. Tate Gallery, London; Musée d'Orsay, Paris; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994-1995: no. 144.

1995: MacDonald, Margaret F. James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1995, no. 1025.