The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.1070
Blue and Violet. Lapis Lazuli
Date
Blue and Violet. Lapis Lazuli dates from 1885/1886.
Blue and Violet. Lapis Lazuli, I. S. Gardner Museum
It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1070).
Images
Blue and Violet. Lapis Lazuli, I. S. Gardner Museum
Modèle drapé, Burrell Collection, Glasgow
Subject
Sitter
Blue and Violet. Lapis Lazuli, I. S. Gardner Museum
Modèle drapé, Burrell Collection, Glasgow
Not identified. A similar robe, possibly on the same model, appears in Modèle drapé m1071. The same fan appears in The Violet Note m1081, and the sofa in Rose et Opale m1231.
Technique
Technique
Blue and Violet. Lapis Lazuli, I. S. Gardner Museum
See discussion in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1070).
History
Provenance
- 1894: probably sold to William Stephen Marchant (1868-1925), of Goupil's, London art dealer;
- 1895: bought in Paris by Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924) of Boston, MA, on 25 June 1895;
- 1924: bequeathed by Mrs Gardner to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Further details are in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1070).
Exhibitions
- 1888: III. Internationale Kunst-Ausstellung, Königlicher Glaspalast, Munich, 1888 (cat. no. 46) as 'Blau und violet. Lapis Lazuli'.
- 1899: Art Exhibition, Mrs John L. Gardner, 152 Beacon Street, Boston, 1899, p. 8 (cat. no. 22) as 'Pastel'.
It was mistakenly thought to have been exhibited in 1886.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1070) as 'Blue and Violet. Lapis Lazuli'.
Catalogues 1855-1905
- III. Internationale Kunst-Ausstellung, Königlicher Glaspalast, Munich, 1888 (cat. no. 46) as 'Blau und violet. Lapis Lazuli'.
- Art Exhibition, Mrs John L. Gardner, 152 Beacon Street, Boston, 1899, p. 8 (cat. no. 22) as 'Pastel'.
Newspapers 1855-1905
- Mecklenburger geber Zeitung, Munich, 23 July 1888.
Books, General
- Alan Chong et al. (eds), Eye of the Beholder: Masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 2003, p. 201, as 'Lapis Lazuli', repr.
Websites
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum website at https://www.gardnermuseum.org.