Object details
Accession number
P25e6
Primary Creator
James McNeill Whistler
(Lowell, Massachusetts, 1834 - 1903, London, England)
Full title
The Note in Orange and Blue (Sweet Shop)
Creation Date
about 1884
Provenance
Possibly painted at a fish shop in St Ives, Cornwall, January-March 1884.
Offered for sale at Whistler's exhibition "Notes" - "Harmonies" - "Nocturnes" at Dowdeswell Gallery, London for £50 (but priced at £100 by Whistler), 1886, no. 49. (entitled "Blue and Orange: Sweet Shop")
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from James McNeill Whistler, London for 100 guineas on 30-31 October 1886. (entitled "The Note in Orange and Blue (Sweet Shop)")
Dimensions
12 x 18 cm (4 3/4 x 7 1/16 in.)
Display Media
Oil on panel
Web Commentary
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Permanent Gallery Location
Veronese Room
Bibliography
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 18. (entitled "The Chelsea Sweet-Shop")
Mortimer Menpes. "Whistler the Purist." Cornhill Magazine, vol. 15 (December 1903), p. 762. (on "The Blue Band")
T.R. Way et al. The Art of James McNeill Whistler: An Appreciation (London, 1903), p. 64. (entitled "The Little Sweet-Stuff Shop")
Mortimer Menpes. Whistler as I Knew Him (London, 1904), pp. 118-19, 140. (on "The Blue Band")
Morris Carter. Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court (Boston, 1925; Reprint, Boston, 1972), p. 103. (entitled "The Note in Orange and Blue - Sweet Shop")
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 418. (entitled "The Sweet Shop, Chelsea")
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 201. (entitled "The Sweet Shop, Chelsea")
“Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 6, no. 19 (6 Jan. 1963), p. 1. (excerpting Morris Carter, pp. 103-05)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 291-92, ill. (entitled "The Sweet Shop, Chelsea")
Andrew McLaren Young et al. The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler (New Haven, 1980), p. 142, no. 263, pl. 161. (as possibly January/March 1884; entitled "Orange and Blue: Sweet Shop"; no. 262 "The Blue Band" may refer to this painting)
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