The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Beach scene with a breakwater dates from 1899/1900.

Beach scene with a breakwater, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1592).

Images

Subject

Site

Unidentified. Given the late date,and the sea-colour, it could be the coast near Pourville.

Technique

Technique

Beach scene with a breakwater, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

See in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1592).

History

Provenance

• 1903: in Whistler's studio in 1903 and bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958);
• 1943: sold to Colnaghi's, London art dealers, 27 March 1943;
• 1943: bought by Francis Falconer Madan (1886-1961), 7 May;
• 1961: bequeathed to the Ashmolean Museum.

Exhibitions

None in Whistler's lifetime.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1592) as 'Beach scene with a breakwater'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. (eds), Memorial Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Francis Falconer Madan, London, 1962 (cat. no. 36).
• Spencer, Robin, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1969 (cat. no. 222).
• Dorment, Richard, and Margaret F. MacDonald (eds), James McNeill Whistler, Tate Gallery, London, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1994-1995 (cat. no. 154), repr.

Journals 1906-Present

• Ashmolean Museum (ed.), Annual Report of the Visitors, Oxford, 1962, p. 51.

Websites

• Ashmolean Museum website at http://collections.ashmolean.org.