Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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Sketch for 'Nocturne in Blue and Gold: Valparaiso Bay'

Sketch for 'Nocturne in Blue and Gold: Valparaiso Bay' dates from 1866. 1

Sketch for 'Nocturne in Blue and Gold: Valparaiso Bay', National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution
Sketch for 'Nocturne in Blue and Gold: Valparaiso Bay', National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution

Whistler spent six months in Chile in 1866 at the time of a brief confrontation between Chile and Spain. 2 According to Whistler's diary for the trip to South America, he left Southampton on 2 February 1866 and arrived in Valparaiso on 12 March, where he remained, except for occasional visits to Santiago and the surrounding countryside, until sailing for England early in September 1866. 3

Notes:

1: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 74).

2: Sutherland 2008 [more]; Sutherland 2014 [more], pp. 95-98.

3: Diary, GUW #04335.

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