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

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Rose and Gold: The Little Lady Sophie of Soho

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 504), plate 324, as 'Rose and Gold: The Little Lady Sophie of Soho'.

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • 2nd Exhibition, Pictures, Drawings, Prints and Sculptures, International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, London, 1899 (cat. no. 138) as 'Rose and Gold - The little Lady Sophie of Soho' (de luxe edition), photogravure frontispiece.
  • VIII. Internationale Kunst-Ausstellung, Königlicher Glaspalast, Munich, 1901 (cat. no. 1833a).
  • Exposition Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Galeries George Petit, Paris, 1901 (catalogue untraced).
  • Seventy-second Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1903 (cat. no. 3).
  • Comparative exhibition of native and foreign art, Society of Art Collectors, New York, 1904 (cat. no. 180) as 'Rose and Gold – The Little Lady Sophie of Soho'.
  • Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 83) as ' "Rose and Gold – The Little Lady Sophie of Soho" '.
  • Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 37) as 'Rose et or. La petite lady Sophie, de Soho. – (Rose and Gold. The Little Lady Sophie of Soho.)'.
  • L'oeuvre de James McNeill Whistler; quarante reproductions de chefs-d'oeuvre du maître... à Paris, au palais de l'École nationale des beaux-arts, Paris, 1905, pl. 25.

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • Anon., 'At Knightsbridge, Daily Telegraph & Courier (London), 10 May 1899, p. 10.
  • Anon., 'The Picture Galleries', Lloyd's Weekly Register, London, 14 May 1899, p. 4.
  • Anon., ['Venatrix'], 'The International Society's Exhibition', Gentlewoman, London, 20 May 1899, p. 34.

Journals 1855-1905

  • Matsuki, Bunkio (ed.), 'Whistler Memorial Exhibition', Lotus, vol. 1, no. 1, (Special Holiday Number in Memoriam: James A. McNeill Whistler), December 1903, pp. 7-9, at pp. 8-9.
  • Wagnalls, Mary, 'The Little Lady Sophia of Soho', [NaN], vol. 4, no. 11, February 1904, pp. 25-27.

Monographs

  • None.

Books on Whistler

  • Cary, Elizabeth Luther, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study, with a Tentative List of Artist’s Works, New York, 1907 p. 169 (cat. no. 80).
  • Duret, Théodore, Histoire de J. McN. Whistler et de son oeuvre, Paris, 1904, wood engraving by Henry Wolf repr. f.p. 190.
  • Gallatin, Albert Eugene, Whistler's Art Dicta and Other Essays, Boston, 1904, p. 42.
  • Gallatin, Albert Eugene, Whistler, Notes and Footnotes, and other Memoranda, New York and London, 1907, p. 33.
  • Laver, James, Whistler, London, 1930, p. 276.
  • Merrill, Linda, With Kindest Regards. The Correspondence of Charles Lang Freer and James McNeill Whistler, 1890-1903, Washington, DC, and London, 1995, pp. 123-24, 126-27, 130, 132-33, 162, 164, repr. plate 12.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 2, p. 207, repr. f.p. 208.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, pp. 77, 281.
  • Petri, Grischka, Arrangement in Business: The Art Markets and the Career of James McNeill Whistler, Hildesheim, 2011, pp. 510, 518.
  • Pousette-Dart, Nicholas, James McNeill Whistler, New York, 1924, repr. pl. 41.
  • Sickert, Bernhard, Whistler, London and New York, 1908, p. 167 (cat. no. 118).

Books, General

  • None.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION:

  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 151, plate 60.
  • Stubbs, Burns A., Paintings, Pastels, Drawings, Prints and Copper Plates by and attributed to American and European Artists, together with a List of Original Whistleriana in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1948, p. 14 (02.109).

EXHIBITIONS:

  • Catalogue of the Inaugural Exhibition, Toledo Museum of Art, 1912, p. 40, repr.p. 41.

Journals 1906-Present

  • 'Whistler Exhibition: the Metropolitan Museum of Art', Academy Notes, vol. 5, no. 2, April 1910.
  • MacInnes, Margaret F., [M. F. MacDonald], 'Whistler's Last Years: Spring 1901 - Algiers and Corsica', Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 73, 1969, pp. 323-42, at p. 331.
  • Shaw, Edith, and Margaret F. MacInnes, 'Four Years with Whistler', Apollo, vol. 87, March 1968, pp. 198-201.

Websites

  • Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1902.109a-b; see also reproduction at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1908.241.2.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 285).

Other

  • None.

Last updated: 21st November 2020 by Margaret