The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
YMSM 363
Capucine et Rose
Date
Capucine et Rose probably dates from the mid-1880s and was first exhibited in 1887. 1 It is not certain whether it was an oil or watercolour. 2
Flower Market, Dieppe, Freer Gallery of Art
It is just possible that it was the watercolour Flower market: Dieppe m1026, which was painted in Dieppe in 1885.
Images
Capucine et Rose, Whereabouts Unknown
Flower Market, Dieppe, Freer Gallery of Art
Subject
Titles
Only one title is known:
- 'Capucine et Rose' (1887, Petit). 3
- 'Capucine et Rose' (1980, YMSM). 4
The title means 'Nasturtium and rose'.
Description
Unknown. The title 'Nasturtium and rose' indicates either flowers (flowering plants of the genus Tropaeolum) or colours: nasturtiums can range from yellow and orange to red, and roses from white and yellow to red and purple. It is possible that this was a figure study, or that these colours provided a point of focus in a street scene.
Flower Market, Dieppe, Freer Gallery of Art
For instance in the watercolour Flower market: Dieppe m1026, the artist focussed on vivid orange and red flowers.
Site
If, as is suggested, Capucine et rose was actually the watercolour known as Flower market: Dieppe m1026, then it was painted in the port of Dieppe on the French coast.
Sitter
No model has been identified, and it is not certain that this was a figure study.
Technique
Technique
It is not known if this was an oil or watercolour.
Conservation History
Unknown.
History
Provenance
Unknown.
Exhibitions
- 1887: Exposition Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1887 (cat. no. 204) as 'Capucine et Rose'.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 363) as 'Capucine et Rose'.
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1112) as 'Capucine et Rose'.
Authored by Whistler
- None.
Catalogues 1855-1905
- Exposition Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1887 (cat. no. 204) as 'Capucine et Rose'.
Journals 1855-1905
- None.
Monographs
- None.
Books on Whistler
- None.
Books, General
- None.
Catalogues 1906-Present
- None.
Journals 1906-Present
- None.
Websites
- None.
Unpublished
- None.
Other
- None.
Notes:
1: Exposition Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1887 (cat. no. 204).
2: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 363). MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1112).
3: Exposition Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1887 (cat. no. 204).
4: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 363).