Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

 

M.0741
Venice at Sunset

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1879
Collection: Joan Whitney Payson Collection at the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Accession Number: n/a
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown paper
Size: 7 5/8 x 11 1/2" (194 x 293 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'No 27 11 x 7 1/2'

Venice at Sunset

Technique

Venice at Sunset, Portland Museum of Art
Venice at Sunset, Portland Museum of Art

There are traces of pentimenti on the boats and traces of another boat at left. There is a description of the technique in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 741).

Last updated: 9th February 2021 by Margaret