The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.1597
r.: Violet and Silver: Low Tide, Belle-Isle-en-mer; v.: Head of a woman with a Breton head-dress
Date
r.: Violet and Silver: Low Tide, Belle-Isle-en-mer; v.: Head of a woman with a Breton head-dress date from 1899/1900.
r.: Violet and Silver: Low Tide, Belle-Isle-en-mer, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
v.: Head of a woman with a Breton head-dress, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
These are fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1597).
r.: Violet and Silver: Low Tide, Belle-Isle-en-mer, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
v.: Head of a woman with a Breton head-dress, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Images
r.: Violet and Silver: Low Tide, Belle-Isle-en-mer, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
v.: Head of a woman with a Breton head-dress, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Subject
Site
r.: Violet and Silver: Low Tide, Belle-Isle-en-mer, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Belle-Île-en-Mer, France.
Sitter
v.: Head of a woman with a Breton head-dress, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
A Breton woman, unidentified.
Technique
Technique
r.: Violet and Silver: Low Tide, Belle-Isle-en-mer, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
v.: Head of a woman with a Breton head-dress, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1597).
History
Provenance
- 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death and bequeathed to his sister-in-law and executrix, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958);
- 1935: given by Miss Birnie Philip to the University of Glasgow.
Exhibitions
- 1905: Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 107).
By the terms of Miss Birnie Philip's gift, the painting cannot be lent to another venue.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1597) as 'r.: Violet and Silver: Low Tide, Belle-Isle-en-mer; v.: Head of a woman with a Breton head-dress'.
Catalogues 1855-1905
- Exposition des œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l’École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 107).
Catalogues 1906-Present
- Aquarellen, Pastels, Teekingen, Etsen, Lithographien en een Schilderij door James McNeill Whistler, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1906 (cat. no. 14) as 'Violet and Silver, Low Tide, Belle Isle'.
- University of Glasgow (ed.), Exhibition of works of art by James McNeill Whistler, together with personal memorials of the artist, presented to the University by Miss R. Birnie Philip, October, 1935, Glasgow, 1935 (cat. no. 170).
- Whistler and Watercolour, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, 2013-2014 (no printed catalogue).
Websites
- The Hunterian website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk.
- de Montfort, Patricia, Whistler & Watercolour, The Hunterian, 2013-2014, online exhibition website.
- MacDonald, Margaret F., Whistler's Watercolour Technique, The Hunterian, 2013-2014, film.