The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Green and silver – The Bright Sea, Dieppe probably dates from 1883: the second butterfly, to left of the earlier one, dates from a little later, probably from 1886, when it was exhibited at 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 62).

Green and silver – The Bright Sea, Dieppe, VMFA

Catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 893). The information is updated and corrected here.

Images

Subject

Site

Green and silver – The Bright Sea, Dieppe, VMFA

The port and holiday resort of Dieppe, France.

Technique

Technique

Green and silver – The Bright Sea, Dieppe, VMFA

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 893).

History

Provenance

• 1886: bought by Clara Sophia Jessup Blomfield-Moore (Mrs B. H. Moore) (1824-1899), 12 Great Stanhope Street, London;
• 1900: sold at her estate sale, Christie's, London, 5 May 1900 (lot 1) as 'A beach scene with fishing boats out at sea', bought by Boussod, Valadon & Cie, [Goupil], London dealers.
• 1946: bought from William Macbeth, New York dealer, in November, by Mrs C. R. Hotchkiss, later Carolyn Glendenin Foulke (née Ryan) (1910-1987), New York and (in the 1960s) Florida;
• 1987: sold at auction, Sotheby''s, New York, 28 May 1987 (lot 4, repr.) as 'Beach at Dieppe', and bought by Hirschl and Adler, New York dealers;
• By 1990: possibly sold to an art dealer in Atlanta, and subsequently to a private collector.
• 2005: given by James W. and Frances Gibson McGlothlin to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, as part of the The James W. and Frances Gibson McGlothlin Collection.

There are considerable gaps in this provenance. For further details see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 893); this record has been updated.

Exhibitions

• 1886: 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 62) as 'Green and silver – The Bright Sea, Dieppe'.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 893) as 'Green and silver – The Bright Sea, Dieppe'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

EXHIBITION:

• 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 62) as 'Green and silver – The Bright Sea, Dieppe'.

SALE:

• Christie's, London, 5 May 1900 (lot 1) as 'A beach scene with fishing boats out at sea'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

EXHIBITION:

• Capturing Beauty: American Impressionist and Realist Paintings from the McGlothlin Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2005.

SALE:

• Christie's, New York, 29 November 2001 (lot 32) $600,000.

Newspapers 1906-Present

• Trescott, Jacqueline, '$100 Million Gift Boosts Va. Museum's American Art Holdings', Washington Post, 17 May 2015, at http://www.washingtonpost.com

Websites

• VMFA website, 2017.
• 'Capturing Beauty: American Impressionist and Realist Paintings from the McGlothlin Collection', VMFA website.
• '73 works donated to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts for permanent installation in the McGlothlin American Art Galleries', Art History News, 25 November 2015, website.