UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

System Number: 07528
Date: [April 1887]^[1]
Author: JW
Place: London
Recipient: [unknown gallery?]
Place: [Paris?]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler X98
Document Type: ALS

'1 tableau^[2]'

Mon cher Monsieur -

Je vous remercie de votre lettre - Ayez la bonté de faire prendre le petit tableau ("Nocturne en Noir et Or"^[3]) du salon, et le faire remettre à Mons. de Nitis^[4] [sic] pour l'Exposition Internationale - salle Petit rue de Sèze -

Cela doit être livré rue de Sèze avant Samedi le 5. Mai - Je suis en train de leur [p. 2] envoyer d'autres peintures pour la même Exposition -

Acceptez mes remerciements et agréez mon cher Monsieur l'assurance de mes sentiments les plus distingués

J. McNeill Whistler

13. Tite Street Chelsea. London

'Whistler'^[5]

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Translation:

My dear Sir -

Thank you for your letter - Have the goodness to arrange to take the little picture ("Nocturne in Black and Gold") from the Salon, and to arrange to deliver it to Mons de Nitis [sic] for the International Exhibition - salle Petit rue de Sèze -

That must be delivered to rue de Sèze before Saturday the 5. May - I am about to [p. 2] send other paintings for the same Exhibition.

Accept my thanks and accept my dear Sir the assurance of my distinguished sentiments

J McNeill Whistler.

'Whistler'

Notes:

1.  [April 1887]
Dated from reference to exhibition and to Georges Petit's gallery.

2.  '1 tableau'
Written in another hand, possibly by the Petit Gallery, in upper left corner.

3.  Nocturne en Noir et Or
Probably Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket (YMSM 170), exhibited under this title (cat. no. 212) at the Exposition Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1887.

4.  Mons. de Nitis
Giuseppe de Nittis (1846-1884), painter and etcher [more].

5.  Whistler
Written in another hand the left margin of page two.