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Completed in 1871, Nocturne: Blue and Silver – Chelsea is a painting by James McNeill Whistler. It is the earliest of the London Nocturnes and was conceived on the same August evening as Variations in Violet and Green. [1]
In the 1870s, James McNeill Whistler exhibited a series of paintings depicting the Thames at night. He focused on the stretch of river in Battersea seen from his Chelsea home, a view...
Nocturne: Blue and Silver - Chelsea. James Abbott McNeill Whistler 1871. Tate Britain. London, United Kingdom. This view is from Battersea Bridge looking across the Thames towards Chelsea. The...
boat, barge (484) ‘Nocturne: Blue and Silver - Chelsea‘, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 1871 on display at Tate Britain.
While he made over fifty Venetian etchings [33.15] and ninety pastels, Whistler produced only three paintings in oil, including Nocturne in Blue and Silver: The Lagoon, Venice. Venice’s mysterious elegance was particularly suited to Whistler’s style.
Nocturne, Blue and Silver: Battersea Reach. Date. about 1872-1878. Medium. Oil on canvas. Provenance. Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from James McNeill Whistler, Paris on 25 June 1895 for 600 guineas. Signatures, inscriptions, and markings. Signed (lower right): Whistler's butterfly signature. Dimensions. 39.4 x 62.9 cm (15 1/2 x 24 3/4 in.)
By: James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Whistler depicts Venice's evocative water-ways from a viewpoint familiar to tourists: with the Ducal Palace behind us, we look south across the lagoon...
