The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0968
r.: Gold and Brown: Dordrecht; v.: Dordrecht
Date
r.: Gold and Brown: Dordrecht; v.: Dordrecht dates from 1884.
r.: Gold and Brown: Dordrecht, Metropolitan Museum of Art
It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 968).
Images
r.: Gold and Brown: Dordrecht, Metropolitan Museum of Art
The verso is not reproduced.
Subject
Site
r.: Gold and Brown: Dordrecht, Metropolitan Museum of Art
A view across the Maas at Dordrecht in the Netherlands.
Technique
Technique
r.: Gold and Brown: Dordrecht, Metropolitan Museum of Art
See details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 968).
History
Provenance
- 1889: bought from Wunderlich's, New York, by William Loring Andrews (1837-1927);
- 1927: bequeathed to his wife, Jane Elizabeth Crane Andrews (1840-1930);
- 1931: sold at auction, AAA, New York, 25 March 1931 (lot 14, repr.), bought by Susan Dwight Bliss (1822-1966), New York;
- 1966: bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 968).
Exhibitions
- 1889: “Notes” – “Harmonies” – “Nocturnes”, H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 1889 (cat. no. 34) as 'Gold and Brown: Dordrecht'.
It was highly commended in the New York Herald, 2 March 1889.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 968) as 'r.: Gold and Brown: Dordrecht; v.: Dordrecht'.
Catalogues 1855-1905
- “Notes” – “Harmonies” – “Nocturnes”, H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 1889 (cat. no. 34) as 'Gold and Brown: Dordrecht'.
Newspapers 1855-1905
- New York Herald, New York, 2 March 1889.
Books on Whistler
- Heijbroek, J. F., and Margaret F. MacDonald, Whistler and Holland, Zwolle and Amsterdam, 1997, pl. x..
Websites
- Metropolitan Museum of Art website at https://www.metmuseum.org.