The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Note in Blue and Opal – Jersey dates from 1881. It was exhibited in VI Summer Exhibition, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1882 (cat. no. 341) as 'Note in Blue and Opal – Jersey'.

Note in Blue and Opal – Jersey, Freer Gallery of Art

The watercolour is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 857).

Images

Subject

Site

Note in Blue and Opal – Jersey, Freer Gallery of Art

The island of Jersey, one of the Channel Islands.

Technique

Technique

Note in Blue and Opal – Jersey, Freer Gallery of Art

See technical details in Whistler in Watercolour, Freer|Sackler, Washington, 2019, website.

History

Provenance

• 1880s: acquired by Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913), London;
• 1904: bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), 7 June 1904;
• 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

See details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 857).

Exhibitions

• 1882: VI Summer Exhibition, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1882 (cat. no. 341) as 'Note in Blue and Opal – Jersey'.
• 1887: Possibly Exposition Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1887 (cat. no. 183) as 'Bleu et argent: la Mer (Jersey)'.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 857) as 'Note in Blue and Opal: Jersey'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• VI Summer Exhibition, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1882 (cat. no. 341) as 'Note in Blue and Opal – Jersey'.
• Possibly Exposition Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1887 (cat. no. 183) as 'Bleu et argent: la Mer (Jersey)'.

Books on Whistler

• Glazer, Lee, Emily Jacobson, Blythe McCarthy, and Katherine Roeder, Whistler in Watercolor: Lovely Little Games, New Haven and London, 2019.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 181, pl. 99.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1904.83a-b.
• Whistler in Watercolour, Freer|Sackler, Washington, 2019, website.