The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Note in pink and brown dates from 1880.

Note in pink and brown, Metropolitan Museum of Art

This pastel is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 787).

Images

Subject

Site

Note in pink and brown, Metropolitan Museum of Art

The site has not been identified but could have been in the sestiere of Castello in Venice, Italy.

Technique

Technique

Note in pink and brown, Metropolitan Museum of Art

The technique is discussed in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 787).

History

Provenance

• 1917: bought from Colnaghi's, London art dealers, by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The earlier provenance is unknown.

Exhibitions

• 1881: Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 26) as 'Note in pink and brown'.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 787) as 'Note in pink and brown'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 26) as 'Note in pink and brown'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

• 'Fine Arts. "Mr Whistler's Venice Pastels" ', The World, London, 2 February 1881, pp. 9-10.

Books on Whistler

• Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 131-32, repr. pl. 160.
• Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, repr. f.p. 52.

Books, General

• Avery, Kevin J., et al., American Drawings and Watercolors in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born before 1835, New York, 2002, pp. 281-83 (cat. no. 104) repr. p. 283.

Websites

• Metropolitan Museum of Art website at https://www.metmuseum.org.