The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.1029
Little red note - Place des Enfers, Dieppe
Date
Little red note – Place des Enfers, Dieppe was exhibited in 1886.
It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1029).
Images
Little red note – Place des Enfers, Dieppe, Whereabouts unknown
Subject
Description
Charles de Kay described it as 'a little brick-red "note" of a street in perspective'. 1
Site
Dieppe, a town, port and holiday resort on the French coast. Assuming Whistler meant the Place du Petit Enfer, this was between the Rue des Bonnes Femmes, Rue de la Rade and Rue du Petit Enfer: an area of old houses a stone's throw from the sea. A painting of the Place by William Nicholson (1872-1949) is in Fenton House (National Trust).
Technique
Technique
Unknown.
History
Provenance
Unknown.
Exhibitions
- 1886: 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 16) as 'Little red note – Place des Enfers, Dieppe'.
Kay described it as 'a little brick-red "note" of a street in perspective that turns out to be the Place des Enfers in Dieppe'. 2
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1029) as 'Little red note – Place des Enfers, Dieppe'.
Catalogues 1855-1905
- 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 16) as 'Little red note – Place des Enfers, Dieppe'.
Journals 1855-1905
- de Kay, Charles, 'Whistler. The head of the Impressionists', Art Review, I, no. vol. 1, 1886 , pp. 1-3, at p. 1.
Notes:
1: de Kay, Charles, 'Whistler. The head of the Impressionists', Art Review, vol. 1, no. 1, 1886 , pp. 1-3, at p. 1.
2: de Kay, Charles, 'Whistler. The head of the Impressionists', Art Review, vol. 1, no. 1, 1886 , pp. 1-3, at p. 1.